William Cameron Menzies
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s widow on a tense train ride.
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle’s castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.