A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
MP John Chilcote is addicted to drugs, which has made his already-unpleasant personality even worse. When he lets down his party in Parliament by botching an important speech, he walks out into a London fog and bumps into his identical cousin, John Loder. When life--including a clinging mistress, a discarded wife, his demanding party bosses, and his responsibilities as a gentle...
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but something always gets in the way: an epidemic, his chil...
