Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

• Individual Pictures
• J. Arthur Rank Organisation
• Richard Attenborough
• Alastair Sim
• Fay Compton
• Stephen Murray
• Wylie Watson
• Susan Shaw
• Hugh Griffith
• Joyce Carey