It starts brightly with a lot of fun poked at Civil Servants and the end of empire, but it tails off into a confusing muddle. Terry-Thomas has an untypical role, as a bumbling idiot rather than a machiavellian cad, and carries it off well. John le Mesurier gives a rare bad performance, but then Latin American General is hardly type-casting. During a Venetian carnival, an actor thinks his wife is having an affair. This starred Matheson Lang reprising a role he'd played ten years earlier, however it's more remembered for the presence of Chili Bouchier playing his wife and wearing one of the most revealing dresses in British cinema.
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Sally Grey is the Victorian ballet dancer trying to keep her virginity safe from cad Michael Wilding by marrying Bernard Miles. Extremely dour Gainsborough melodrama, which audiences disliked as much as the critics, probably because Grey isn't playing the sort of ball-breaker Margaret Lockwood does so well. David Niven is the Major who takes money owed to him from the company safe and then faces a court-martial. He gives one of his best ever performances in this tense courtroom drama. As a drama it pays more attention to the minutiae of court procedure than the machinations of the plot, but that's part of its appeal.