The film is full of memorable images and has a great, if predictable, climax. Script adapt . Alec Guinness is the wheeler-dealer on his way up in this Arnold Bennett comedy. Valerie Hobson , Glynis Johns and Petula Clark are the women he meets on his way. This is just such a charming film.
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Walter Forde's rather longer one. Pity, because it's good fun. Oliver Cromwell is in power and our hero is caught up in a plot to restore the monarchy. Margaret Lockwood does well with the role of Nell Gwyn and shows a gift for comedy that was rarely used again. Terry-Thomas is the incompetent diplomat trying to negotiate a mineral treaty with a tiny island.