Clearly doing both writing and directing was too much for Bennett. There's fun to be had watching this film if you're in the right mood, but it doesn't have quite the right sort of madness to make it a classic bad film, or the right sort of heart to make it a classic good film. Script adapt . Gainsborough melodramas never got more barking than this. Her daughter Patricia Roc gets involved in the deception and it all ends as badly as a Jacobean tragedy.
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American Paul Douglas has the lead and is surrounded by a bunch of Scots character actors busily outwitting him as he tries to get some valuable cargo transported in the Western Isles. Well worth watching. The willing suspension of disbelief was never more needed than when Stewart Granger took on the role of Paganini in this Gainsborough biopic. Bless him, he does his best, and doesn't fall quite as hard as Dennis Price in The Bad Lord Byron . Phyllis Calvert has the thankless role of the woman who redeems him by arranging for him to play for the Pope.