Third big-screen adaptation of John Buchan's classic novel. Mining engineer Richard Hannay (Robert Powell) is on a brief visit to England when his neighbour Colonel Scudder (John Mills) warns him that foreign 'sleeper' agents are at work, planning to pre-empt global war by murdering a foreign dignitary. When Scudder is murdered by the agents Hannay finds himself under suspicion by the police, and goes on the run in a bid to both prove his own innocence and expose the enemy spies.

Triple bill of British movies produced by the Children's Film Foundation. In 'The Man from Nowhere' (1976), a young girl goes to stay at her wealthy uncle's home where she encounters a mysterious stranger who seems keen for her to leave. In 'Haunters of the Deep' (1984), a businessman causes trouble when he reopens an old mine with a dark history. In 'Out of the Darkness' (1985), two siblings and their young friend try to free the spirit of a child who died during the Great Plague.