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.
