It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

With the responsibilities of world peace, the national debt and dessert choices at state dinners constantly on his mind, it seemed like a good idea to get the President of the United States an analyst to help him deal with these burdens. Dr Sidney Schaefer wins the coveted job, but it turns into a surrealist nightmare; a man privy to the deepest thoughts of the most powerful man on earth must either be tortured for information or shot on sight for the sake of national security. A crazy, farcical find out more...