David Kossoff

A London family that inherits a failing pub in a seemingly idyllic town must battle eccentric locals, sabotage, and free beer to turn it around.

In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanna (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and earnestly determined to help realize the wishes of his poor, hard-working neighbours.

When the royal castle needs plumbing – and money to buy it – the sly Prime Minister of a tiny nation creates a phony space program to raise the funds. But when the local wine turns out to be ideal for rocket fuel...going to space becomes a reality!

Cary Grant is the suave American diplomat who pretends to be married in order to preserve his bachelor status. Ingrid Bergman is the glamorous leading lady of the London stage who has no scruples about having an affair with a married man.

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

A portrait of the early life of cinema's first great comedic artist follows the young genius from poverty and family chaos to the summit of stardom.