Directed by Leslie Arliss, U.K./Italy. Not the Richard O’Sullivan sitcom, but a good old-fashioned melodrama about two strait-laced sisters who move from rainy London to sunny Naples after an uncle bequeaths them his villa. Upright Agnes, however, soon forgets her spinsterish ways and falls for and marries roguish butler Salvatore, who’ll stop at nothing to claim the villa which he feels belongs rightfully to him. What I liked about this was the seething mass of sex just below its repressed surface, and the way it all happily ends with a colossal act of deception. Good work from the three leads, Kieron Moore, Margaret Johnston, and Dulcie Gray. 4/5.
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