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 throughly entertaining action-adventure as two half-brothers fight for the Northumbrian throne. Lots of pillaging, axe-throwing, hearty quaffing of ale, storming of castles heroic jumping into wolf pits and manly talk of entering Valhalla sword in hand. Sounds like the Swedes on hols again.
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