Bless 'em All

In the early years of the Second World War, respectable Maurice

and raffish Bernard are two squabbling brothers who â€" with the

help of sixteen-year-old Jimmy and Miss Tcherny, a pretty invoice

clerk â€" run a wholesale bookselling business near St Paul’s.

Over the river, in a large house in south London, the residents are

doing their best to get on with their lives as the Luftwaffe brings

the war to the capital. Bert and Edie Penrose live in the basement;

above them, lonely widow Mrs Bennet remembers the last war, her

dead husband and her son in Australia. Meanwhile, Bunty, on the

middle floor, married to a jealous man with a short fuse, turns

tricks in the West End after he cycles off to work. A stunning

blonde, she is totally deaf and dumb. Then there’s her neighbour

Betty, a faithful but naive young wife at the top of the house.

When Maurice, Bernard, Bunty and Betty get together at the

dubious Hostess Club in Soho, a sequence of events follows that

no one could predict . . .