Famous Hollywood director Robert Grimble arrives in the antipodes to make an epic flick about pioneering women, and launches a quest to find a girl with "that certain something" for the main role.
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
