The Impassive Footman
A woman finds brief respite from the selfishness of her husband with a young doctor, and their mutual attraction is rekindled by a chance meeting at a concert.
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Grace Marwood and her husband, a hopeless hypochondriac, take a cruise where she falls in love with the ship's medical officer, young Dr Daventry. The two continue to meet chastely for several years, with Marwood's behavior becoming ever more selfish and insufferable in the interim, until her husband finally becomes suspicious and accuses her of the adultery she has not in fact committed, provoking her to leave him for the man she loves. Meanwhile, the invalid's every whim is catered from the mysterious well-educated footman Simpson, who is apparently prepared to put up with anything from his employer. But Marwood falls genuinely ill, and Daventry is the only doctor in England who may be able to save him.
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- Director
- Basil Dean
- Starring
- Owen Nares, Betty Stockfeld, Allan Jeayes, George Curzon, Aubrey Mather, Frances Rose Campbell, Florence Harwood, George Coulouris
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