After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
乡绅沃辛(Michael Redgrave 饰)来到伦敦城内拜访阿尔及(Michael Denison 饰),而实际目的是后者的表妹格温多兰,为了便于探望格温多兰,沃辛虚构了一位伦敦的不肖昆仲欧内斯特。阿尔及对沃辛在乡下监护的姑娘西西莉情有独钟,于是出面帮助沃辛向格温多兰求婚,尽管欧内斯特(真诚)这个假名对姑娘有莫名的吸引力,但沃辛的弃儿出身让未来岳母一口回绝。阿尔及在沃辛之前赶到他乡下的住处,装作欧内斯特如愿结识了西西莉,未几沃辛与格温多兰母女先后抵达,虚拟人物“欧内斯特先生”的骗局终被揭穿,两位男士一时手足无措,但突然浮出水面的一段陈年往事,让两对恋人的前途峰回路转。 本片根据王尔德同名作品改编。
In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn.