Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son.
Acting
Guinness builds entire character from posture and pauses.
Writing
Dialogue that stings like dry vermouth.
Director
Rodney Bennett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Written for television but shot on 35mm, giving it that strange 'event drama' prestige of 1980s British TV.
Guinness was 70, playing retired — the role mirrors his own retreat from Hollywood to quiet English character work.
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