Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more then he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I.
Filmed on location in the West Register Street in the east end of Edinburgh as well as at Hopetoun House (West Lothian) and the Bo'Ness & Kinneil Railway.