In a deserted newsroom Peter Stenning writes the biggest news story the world has ever known: 'Within the next few hours the world will know whether this is the end or another beginning'. The combined jolt of nuclear test explosions carried out by the Americans and the Russians has shifted the Earth's orbit and it is now racing towards the sun. Chaos mounts. But four super bombs exploded simultaneously might halt the catastrophic progress. Will the...

A small boy and girl and the ship's cook survive a shipwreck and wash up on a tropical island. When the cook dies, the children are left on their own to survive and grow to adulthood.

An actor and actress have an adulterous affair while playing the screen roles of an engaged scientist and the tainted woman with whom he becomes obsessed.

Honest French teacher Albert Topaze (Peter Sellers) is fired after refusing to alter the bad grades of a baroness' grandson. Sensing an opportunity, actress Suzy (Nadia Gray) convinces her lover, corrupt city council member Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), to hire Topaze as a managing director for one of his businesses to mitigate any suspicion. When Topaze learns he is being used, he decides to swindle his manipulators. Based on a Marcel Pagnol play,...

Queen Eleanor arrives back in England and engages Robin and his men to protect her while she travels around the country. This enrages the Sheriff of Nottingham who constructs a plan to discredit Robin.

Duncan of Stoneykirk, a Scottish outlaw, meets up with Robin in Sherwood forest. His friendly and larger-than-life personality gives Robin a sense of unease, but keeps his feeling to himself until it becomes clearer and clearer what Duncan's plans are.

One of Robin's men returns to his village to visit his family. Upon hearing this news, the sheriff convinces the villagers to have the man charged with a recent murder in the area.

Nottingham's tax collectors find it harder and harder to collect the county's levied assessments. When the Sheriff of Nottingham decides to make an example of Will Stukely, a poor farmer who could not pay his taxes, by hanging him, Robin Hood tricks the Sheriff into leaving the walled town, capturing him, and offering to trade his life in exchange for the condemned man's.

Maid Marian's absent father has arranged her marriage with the knight who saved her life. When Robin learns that the man to be Marian's husband cares only for her hefty dowry, he plans to break up the wedding by posing as a German knight who had been promised her hand in marriage long ago.