On the morning of the Epsom Derby, a disparate group of people prepare to go to the races. Lady Helen Forbes, a recently widowed aristocrat, is planning to make the journey in spite of the disapproval of her social set who consider it unseemly to go while still in mourning. David Scott, a newspaper cartoonist, is ordered to go by his editor against his wishes. Meanwhile, as part of a charity raffle, a dissolute film star, Gerald Berkeley, is to escort a wealthy grand dame to Epsom for the day, something he is equally reluctant about. She falls and injures her leg, and her crafty housekeeper arranges for one of the young French maids to go in her place. Meanwhile, in Hackney, a lodger kills a man whose wife he is having an affair with. They plan to flee the country, and also travel to Epsom, where he knows a tipster who may be able to smuggle them out. Helen and David meet and find themselves sharing confidences; they were both bereaved in the same air-crash. It seems likely that they will meet again. The lodger and the wife are spotted and arrested. And a taxi-drivers wife fulfils her life ambition to see the races. The race featured is actually the Derby of 1949. Directed by Herbert Wilcox Written by Arthur Austen John Baines Monckton Hoffe Alan Melville Produced by Maurice Cowan Hebert Wilcox Starring Anna Neagle Michael Wilding Googie Withers John McCallum Peter Graves Suzanne Cloutier Gordon Harker Narrated by Raymond Glendenning Cinematography Mutz Greenbaum Edited by Bill Lewthwaite Music by Anthony Collins