Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.
Acting
Margaret Johnston's trembling repression is exquisite agony.
Cinematography
Neapolitan shadows swallow characters whole.
Director
Leslie Arliss
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released when British cinema was processing post-war identity crises through exotic 'dangerous' Europeans.
Kieron Moore was so typecast as smoldering foreigners that he later fled to become a humanitarian aid worker. No, really.
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