少年皮普（John Mills，Tony Wager 饰）父母双亡，依靠姐姐与铁匠姐夫生活，在闭塞的英国乡下，皮普受到的只是粗暴的管教。临近监狱的两名犯人逃脱，皮普出于善良向其中一个提供了食物，尽管犯人很快归案，但入狱前不忘提皮普开脱。不久附近豪宅内的哈维森小姐召皮普为自己服务，皮普一家视之为出头的机会，怎料哈维森小姐年轻时被男人所伤，一心只想培养养女爱斯泰纳（Valerie Hobson，Jean Simmons 饰）报复男人。
皮普很快步入了宿命般的铁匠生活，不觉六年过去。一位神秘的资助人出钱令皮普进入上流社会，皮普经过在伦敦的学习脱胎换骨，然而他久久不能忘怀少年时的初恋爱斯泰纳，幕后的资助人麦戈维奇——当年的逃犯——此时突然出现，皮普决意同麦戈维奇一起离开英国，但警察早已监视他们多时……
本片获1948年奥斯卡奖最佳摄影奖、最佳美工设计奖。根据查尔斯·狄更斯同名小说改编。

故事发生在十九世纪的英国，霍布森（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）经营着一家鞋铺，辛辛苦苦拉扯着三个女儿玛姬（布伦达·德·班泽 Brenda De Banzie 饰）、爱丽丝（达芙妮·安德森 Daphne Anderson 饰）和维奇（普鲁内拉·斯凯尔斯 Prunella Scales 饰）长大，一转眼，三个姑娘都已经到了谈婚论嫁的年纪，但吝啬的霍布森并不准备支付女儿们的嫁妆。
玛姬爱上了鞋匠威利（约翰·米尔斯 John Mills 饰），尽管霍布森极力的反对这段不合时宜的感情，但独立好强的玛姬还是同威利结了婚。在玛姬的帮助下，威利的事业蒸蒸日上，很快便成为了霍布森最强劲的商业对手，与此同时，玛姬还帮助两个妹妹解决了嫁妆的难题。

巴塞尔（约翰·米尔斯 John Mills 饰）是山地步兵团新任命的团长，这个严肃而又认真的男人刚刚上任就决定好好的整顿一下军队内懒散的恶习。在巴塞尔到来之前，步兵团的生活可谓是闲散而又惬意，克莱辛中校（亚利克·基尼斯 Alec Guinness 饰）的日子过得如鱼得水，但现在不同了，这让克莱辛感到非常的不满。虽然表面上，克莱辛对巴塞尔做出的种种决定都十分赞同，但在背地里，他不停的煽动着下级们对于巴塞尔的抱怨和不满。
某日，克莱辛发现自己的下属竟然在背地里勾引自己的女儿，被愤怒冲昏了头脑的克莱辛狠狠的将这个不知天高地厚的小子胖揍了一顿。

故事发生在一艘名为“托林号”的英国皇家海军驱逐舰上，在一场激烈的海战中，该驱逐舰击落了多驾敌机，创下了赫赫战功，但它也因为拼搏在战斗的第一线而伤痕累累，最终中弹起火。
在舰长金洛斯（诺埃尔·考沃德 Noel Coward 饰）的要求之下，船员们放弃了托林号，塔上了救生艇，其中包括军士长沃尔特哈迪（伯纳德·迈尔斯 Bernard Miles 饰）和新兵肖蒂（约翰·米尔斯 John Mills 饰）等人。一行人在海上艰难漂泊，全凭意志和对家人的思念才勉强幸存，最终被一艘英国军舰救起，获救之时，刚开始浩浩荡荡的240名官兵，仅剩下19人。

Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort of life is led by the family through the years with average number of triumphs and disasters until the outbreak of WWII.

A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family (last name Smith) who go off to war. Much of the action in the movie revolves around the words of the marching songs of the soldiers, and many scenes portray some of the more famous (and infamous) incidents of the war, including the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, the Christmas meeting between British and German soldiers in no-mans-land, and the wiping out by their own side of a force of Irish soldiers newly arrived at the front, after successfully capturing a ridge that had been contested for some time.

A tontine is established for a dozen children, a tontine being a kind of bet/insurance, money is put in for each to grow with interest and the last survivor is to get the lot. We watch the group dwindle until only two brothers are left. One brother is watched by his nephews who will keep him alive at all costs, the other lives in ill health and poverty as the only support of his fairly stupid grandson. Statues and bodies are switched, in the wrong boxes until everyone is sure someone has died. Now if they can only make it seem as if the other brother died first, hundreds of thousands of pounds (in Victorian England when a pound was a pound) will be theirs.

Sir John Mills' life told through his own colour home movies!
'Moving Memories' is a unique opportunity to experience the life of a film legend through his own 16mm home movies. Sir John started shooting in 1948 before home movie making became widely accessable. He shot on the then groundbreaking colour reversal film which means that many of his colour clips are behind the scenes on movies released in black and white, such as 'Ice Cold in Alex' and 'Dunkirk'. The cast list for these never before seen home movies is extraordinary. Sir John recorded personal moments with unforgettable stars.
Moving Memories features interviews with Sir John , Hayley, Juliet, Jonathan Mills, & Lord Attenborough. It features classic movie clips, plus never before seen personal home movie footage, and amazing behind the scenes shots. A truly unique film (60 minutes).
Following the discovery of 12000 feet of personal 16mm home movies in Sir John Mills' attic, Marcus Dillistone directed and edited 'Moving Memories', a 60 minute film which tells the extraordinary life and career of Sir John Mills, uniquely told through Sir John's own behind-the-scenes footage!
The 'cast' of these unique home movies reads like a cinema who's who: Rex Harrison, David Niven, Stewart Grainger, Jean Simmons , Dickie Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Ernest Borgnine and Angela Lansbury... to name but a few!

科尔迪兹城堡是被纳粹德军用来关押在其他战俘营经常逃跑的人员，因为政治犯也关押在这里，所以战俘营看守人数超过囚犯总和。但是，纳粹把他们都关在一起就促成了更大的战俘大逃亡。