In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform…

Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an…

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.