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Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Mona Washbourne, Kay Walsh, Robert Flemyng, Kathleen Harrison
| Smooth British scam artist Edward "Teddy" Bare (Dirk Bogarde) has recently married elderly dowager Monica (Mona Washbourne), whom he plans to use as a steady source of food and shelter until her death, when he stands to inherit her fortune. But when he discovers that she plans to make a will, he drugs her wine and coldbloodly kills her with a faked accident.
The joke is on him, however, when Monica's attorney Phillip Mortimer (Robert Flemyng), who has always been suspicious of Teddy, informs him that her new will would have left her husband everything, but he is now stuck with just her house, with the bulk of the money going to her sister. After pausing to con Monica's faithful maid (Kathleen Harrison) out of her meager inheritence, Teddy sets off for the nearest resort, where he immediately commences to woo Mrs. Freda Jeffries (Margaret Lockwood), a brassy young widow with her own fortune made from her marriage and her former career as a saloonkeeper. Luring her back to his manor and convincing her to rent it, he almost immediately seduces her into marriage. The new Mrs. Bare, however, turns out to be every bit Teddy's intellectual match, and he soon fears that she will never give him a chance to get his hands on her money. So when socialite Charlotte Young (Kay Walsh) arrives, looking for a piece of land to make into a riding academy, the wily schemer decides that maybe he doesn't need Freda after all. | ||
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Plot Crime & Scandal Yes Story of - criminals stealing from honest people Blackmail & Seduction? Yes Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable Hair color? - brunette (Black) Hair type - (man) short/standard straight Body type - (man) very skinny Ethnicity/Nationality How sensitive is this character? - hard edged Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Physique - average physique Secondary Main Character Identity: - Female Hair color - brunette (Brown) Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey Body type - (woman) ample bosom & buttocks How much in movie? - 60% Ethnicity/Nationality - British Main Adversary Identity: - Female Age: - 40's-50's How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20% Hair color - blonde Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey Body type - (woman) average Ethnicity/Nationality - British How sensitive is this character? Intelligence - Average intelligence Physique - average physique Setting Europe Yes European country: - England/UK City? Yes City: Misc setting Style Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment Sex/nudity in movie? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - kissing Check here if B&W Yes Non-American film? Yes What language? - English Any profanity? - None Is this movie based on a - play |
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