An obscure, but lavish, Ealing romantic historic drama concerning the ill-starred relationship between Sophia Dorothea, wife of the repulsive Elector of Hanover and future George the First of Britain, and the dashing Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Königsmarck. Lots of court intrigue and doomed love. Note: This was the first Ealing picture shot in colour.
find out more...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...