This film was broadcast in the USA with little fanfare by PBS, and represents one the more obscure efforts from the grand dame of cinema nudity.
This was the last script ever written by the famous British playwright, Terence Rattigan, who was perhaps best known to international audiences as the author of Separate Tables. It recounts an actual murder trial that scandalized England.
In March of 1935, noted architect Francis Rattenbury was bludgeoned to death in Bournemouth. The police soon had his much younger second wife and her even younger lover (played by a very young David Morrissey) in custody. The victim was 67, his wife 38, her lover 19. The arrest and trial were tabloid sensations, thanks to the salacious details.
TRIVIA: The story is faithful to the facts, but the boy-lover’s surname had to be changed because his real-life model was still alive.
The video is here. I don’t have this production in any quality better than DVD. It appears to have been shot on tape rather than film. Tuna spent some time correcting, brightening and saturating the captures above, and they look better than the video.
The video is infected with malware, Scoop. When I tried to just play the video, there was no video, just sound, the sound was ok, but no actual video. I tried downloading and instead of a video it downloaded “avg_secure_browser_setup.exe.” I tried again and it took me to some bad looking websites (tho one time it took me to Amazon).
That’s a weird one. It can’t be in the video because I made that one myself, from a legal DVD, using the same software I always use (DVD shrink and MKVmerge). Something must have gone wrong in the upload. I converted the file to .mp4 and it seems to work fine now.