An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

Two criminals are reformed when they meet and fall in love.

The film follows the exploits of J.G. Reeder, a mild-mannered but sharp investigator from the Public Prosecutor's office, as he navigates a complex web of crime.

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.

A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.