I always love to see Greta Gynt - and her sarcastic nasal voice comes through at times here, though she is pretending to be "a lady", oddly named Mrs Litchen.
We switch from cramped London offices and Branwell's inconvenient London flat to "Lowes Manor" - first seen as a Gothic painting with many too many chimneys. The interior is to match. It seems left over from the 30s and 40s - did people have a fantasy of owning such a manor, which surely had ghosts and priest's holes?
Branwell, the loss adjuster (I like these plots) begins to suspect a fraud being worked by his ex-girlfriend's new husband Mr Moreton, played by Dennis Price. There's a prolonged scene as Branwell prowls around the darkened manor, finding copies of old masters which are due to go up in flames, and - apparently - Moreton's corpse.
Branwell and Mrs Moreton (Dahl) rush off and get married, but they seem to be haunted by Moreton's misdeeds. Dahl must return the insurance payout but plot devices stand in her way. There are dark hints that Moreton is still alive, that another perished in the flames.
Sadly, this is not so - I hate to lose Dennis Price. Of course it all ends happily. Another bonus is a view of the genuine Lloyds of London, following antiquated procedures.
We switch from cramped London offices and Branwell's inconvenient London flat to "Lowes Manor" - first seen as a Gothic painting with many too many chimneys. The interior is to match. It seems left over from the 30s and 40s - did people have a fantasy of owning such a manor, which surely had ghosts and priest's holes?
Branwell, the loss adjuster (I like these plots) begins to suspect a fraud being worked by his ex-girlfriend's new husband Mr Moreton, played by Dennis Price. There's a prolonged scene as Branwell prowls around the darkened manor, finding copies of old masters which are due to go up in flames, and - apparently - Moreton's corpse.
Branwell and Mrs Moreton (Dahl) rush off and get married, but they seem to be haunted by Moreton's misdeeds. Dahl must return the insurance payout but plot devices stand in her way. There are dark hints that Moreton is still alive, that another perished in the flames.
Sadly, this is not so - I hate to lose Dennis Price. Of course it all ends happily. Another bonus is a view of the genuine Lloyds of London, following antiquated procedures.