It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A young and beautiful concert pianist has lost her ability to perform, is emotionally fraught and close to collapse. A gifted young psychiatrist takes up her case and becomes determined to unravel the secrets that have brought her to this point, a task that will involve her brooding guardian, a man who treats the young woman with an aggressive contempt for which there seems no justification. The Seventh Veil is a deliciously dark tale of desire and repression, dripping in atmosphere and inten find out more...