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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...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of a woman stigmatised by the repressive puritan morality of New World America is very loosely adapted for the screen. Demi Moore plays the victimised main character who incurs religious wrath for getting pregnant outside marriage. Colourful and dramatic. find out more...