June Buckridge is 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays on a popular daytime serial. The widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is a predatory lesbian who is pursuing Childie, June's flat mate.

Charles Laughton plays Kidd, a merchant captain who cons the King of England into allowing him to take to the sea to recover a lost treasure and escort a ship back to London. An old fellow conspirator who he thought dead (John Carradine) and a mysterious young man (Randolph Scott) manage to get on board and cause problems for Kidd.