In Our Time
Lupino is an English woman accompanying her friend Boland on a trip to Warsaw. There she meets Polish count Henreid who falls in love with her. Despite the objections of his family, the two marry and settle on Henreid's family farm. But war soon comes and the farm is burned to the ground by the Nazis. Henreid and Lupino know that Poland will one day rise again, however.
Devotion
Whitty is a peeress of the realm in the town of Haworth in Yorkshire, 1836. The sisters, Lupino, de Havilland, and Coleman, and brother Kennedy live with father Montagu Love and aunt Griffies. Kennedy is a drunk but brilliant artist. He earns what little money he needs for alcohol by sketching patrons in various bars. One day he brings home Henreid, the new curate of the village. The sisters nat...mehrurally assume that Henreid is a fellow boozehound, but the truth is that he helped Kennedy home so the poor young man wouldn't wind up face down in the gutter. The sisters take jobs as governesses to raise enough money to send Kennedy to London, where he hopes to establish himself as an artist. But he is back very quickly and carps about the philistines in London and how they "don't understand" his work...
The Mask Of Dimitrios
Eine in Istanbul 1938 gefundene Leiche wird als der international gesuchte Gangster Dimitrios Makropoulos identifiziert. Daraufhin versucht ein holländischer Schriftsteller, das Leben des Verbrechers in mehreren europäischen Städten zu rekonstruieren und gerät selbst in einen Strudel der Gewalt und Gewissenlosigkeit...
Mission To Moscow
Der Vorkriegsbotschafter der USA in Moskau berichtet "objektiv" über seine politische Mission...