Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April (Janette Scott) is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas). In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter's (Alastair Sim) College of Lifemanship, where he gradually learns how to get one up on the other fellow.

Realist drama from Ealing Studios, based on a novel by Arthur La Bern and set in London's working-class East End just after World War 2. The action unfolds over the course of one dismal, rainy Sunday. Tommy Swann (John McCallum) has escaped from Dartmoor prison and turns up at the drab East End home of his former love Rose (Googie Withers), who is now married to the staid George (Edward Chapman) with three children. Rose has a difficult decision to make: should she help Tommy, or put her marriage - and the claustrophobic domesticity it entails - first?

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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Glen Edward Chapman spent more than 13 years on death row for two murders he did not commit (one of which was almost certainly not even a murder) before he was exonerated and set free. This is a story of police misconduct, irresponsible counsel and the team that worked together to prove Chapman's innocence and save his life.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Document I. Opening Address At The Formal Inauguration Of The American Congress Of Bibliography And History At Buenos Aires. This meeting was opened by the Argentine Minister of the Interior. The address was delivered by Dr. Chapman in Spanish. It will be published in Spanish in the volume which will record the acts and proceedings of the Congress. textit{Most Excellent Minister, Mr. President, Fellow-Delegates, textit{Ladies and Gentlemen: I desire, in the first place, in the name of California, whose University I represent on this occasion, to felicitate the Argentine Republic upon having completed, with such happy fortune, one hundred years since the Declaration of her Independence. Well may you felicitate yourselves, for the history of the world does not record a more stupendous advance than that which Argentina has made since those memorable years when, under Liniers, she repulsed the attacks of a foreign power which was trying to take possession of her. Then, for the first time, Argentina was revealed to herself, and it was a matter of a few years for a Belgrano, a San Martin, and other illustrious generals, to assure the independence of the country. It is difficult for me, a historian by profession, to leap from that moment to the present, without reminding you of the great men, well known though they be, who contributed, by their fervent patriotism and warlike valor, to the growth of this powerful Republic, whose greatest blasonry finds itself represented in this magnificent city of today. Argentina's mighty forward advance along the highway of progress is indisputably the determining cause why this Republic, which, a hundred years ago, possessed little more than the potential wealth of its soil and the valor of its men, may today preside over an textit{intellectual Congress, whose re...