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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...

California, 1860, and former gold digger Daniel Dillon is now a wealthy man who owns Kingdom Come, a thriving prospecting town in the icy mountain wilderness of post-Gold Rush northern California, but to expand his burgeoning empire Dillon needs the Central Pacific Railroad to pass by and he has invited their chief surveyor. This coincides with the arrival of his wife and daughter, whom Daniel has not seen for twenty years, and as he attempts to seek some redemption for his dark past, the empire find out more...