Eros Films, was a British film distribution and later production company, were in operation from May 1947 to June 1961. It was founded by three brothers: Philip, Sydney, and Michael Hyams.
After a year of marriage, Edward "Teddy" Bare (Dirk Bogarde) kills his wealthy older wife, Monica (Mona Washbourne), after she asks her lawyer, Phillip Mortimer (Robert Flemyng), to change her will. He stages it to look as if she was accidentally asphyxiated while drunkenly trying to light a gas heater.
Jeff Longstreet and Laura Weeks are paired together to take care of a group of wild children whose parents are lost on an African safari. The children make attempts to press Jeff and Laura into a romantic relationship while breaking them away from their fiancees.
When their Uncle dies without leaving a will, his farm passes to his three London nephew and nieces. While two of them wish to sell the place the third, Fred Slater, has ideas of setting up as a farmer. Facing the hostility of his family, and some of the locals, he attempts to improve the farm before its mortgage is called in.
An American journalist works to expose a criminal gang in London. But his investigation of their counterfeiting activities leads to his kidnapping by the gang.
Nick Delaney, an American stranded in England without money, meets a woman who has smuggled diamonds into the country inside a teddy bear. But his hopes for financial aid are shattered when she is pushed from a cliff. Delaney then finds himself the prime suspect. He finally gets his hands on the gems but loses them to a gang of crooks. Can Delaney prove his innocence and shop the crooks to the police?
Turner is a policeman whose partner has been killed. While he adjusts, he is placed in charge of a stray Alsatian dog now being used for police work. Meanwhile his partner's killer decides to break into a safe. After the break-in, Turner and his dog find the man and bring him to justice.
After serving a term in prison for safe-cracking, Fred Morris finds work as a Taxicab driver. He is approached by a gang that recruits ex-cons, but, wishing to go straight, he informs the police and they send him undercover to join the gang and expose its leader. But the gang discovers Morris's identity and tries to kill him by locking him in a deep freezer. He is saved by his cabby friends who ride to the rescue and corner the crooks.
A miner's family acquire ownership of a greyhound, "Raving Beauty", which they plan to enter into a race. Jim Gay, the father, plans to get a better starting price for the dog by pretending it is ill, in order to lengthen its odds and clean up at the bookies. But keeping up the pretence with his wife, daughter, the whole street and the hardened gamblers played by Jon Pertwee and Peter Butterworth, is no easy task.
L'agent immobilier Alan Curtis (Arthur Kennedy) est en couple avec Elizabeth (Joy Shelton ). Insatisfait par son couple, il entame une relation extra-conjugale avec Lila (Constance Smith), une danseuse dont le frère est impliqué dans une affaire de vol de bijoux. Curtis se retrouve mêlé à l'affaire.
Durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, dans un camp de prisonniers alliés, la mise en place par l'ensemble des détenus britanniques d'un ingénieux et subtil système de leurre consistant en un mannequin pour permettre à un prisonnier une possible évasion, son absence étant comblée provisoirement par la présence de "ce prisonnier fantôme" ...