Joan Dowling

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies. (imdb)

A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. (imdb)

A landlord taunts his tenant into attempted suicide, suspecting him of murder but the landlord switches glasses and takes the poison instead. (BFI)

Two children are evacuated during World War Two into the care of an alcoholic woman. (imdb)

A pair of young coal miners meet two girls whilst on holiday in Ramsgate, Kent and despite family troubles, other admirers and a strict landlady they fall in love.

Vivanne is thrown on her own when her lover is arrested for murder. Searching for a place to live, she eventually finds a room in a boarding-house run by a woman who provides room-and-board for unmarried mothers with an ulterior motive.