<p>With his usual knack of getting into trouble Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless.in this breathless adventure.</p><p>Returning home to his Cockney roots after a trip to Spain Ben meets a mysterious stranger on a cross-Channel steamer and is promised a job. On arrival at Southampton they take a taxi. Ben gets out to post a letter but on returning to the cab finds the stranger has been murdered! Pursued by a mysterious foreigner Ben escapes his clutches only to find the police are now after him and the whole political establishment is in danger.</p><p>Combining laughs and thrills J. Jefferson Farjeon’s sinister tale of murder and blackmail is made all the more exciting thanks to the presence of Ben the big-hearted vagabond who gets himself into scrape after scrape.</p>