A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test...

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.