A robbery leaves a man dead, another injured and a third unhurt - the last is pilloried as a coward.

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.

Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal, with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.

The Duke has long been a prisoner. But he still has a few cards to play.

Incapable of earning an honest penny, a kindly English man turns to making counterfeit money instead - so expertly, in fact, that he baffles Scotland Yard for years.

A busybody believes sincerely that her interference in the lives of other people is all for the best. She is perhaps mistaken.

An publisher insinuates himself into the mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.

An elderly matriarch is on death's bed, and her family struggles to make ends meet financially.

A once-zealous IRA agent has grown sick of violence - but his younger brother hasn't.

Set in the year 1783 aboard H.M.S. Indomitable, then at war with the French, an innocent young sailor is hung from the ship's mast as a result of violence and corruption among the crew.