Directed by:
Mike HodgesScreenplay:
Michael ChaplinCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
Barrington PheloungCast:
Michael Kitchen, Sarah Miles, David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Peter Vaughan, Diana Quick, Roger Lloyd Pack, Paul Brooke, Nicholas Selby, Robert Stephens (more)Plots(1)
England 1921. The serenity of a small country town is about to be shattered by a shockiing revelation about one of its leading citizens. A family will be ruined. A private matter will become a case of great public interest. Life seems good for Major Herbert Armstrong. he is a respected solicitor with a country estate the love of his three children and a dvout pride in both his life and his garden. But every landscape has its challenges - and so does every life. In Herbert's otherwise pristine garden it's a bad case of dandelions. In his life the problems are twofold. Firstly thre's his wife. Katharine has become bad-termpered and domineering not in the least afraid to shame Herbert in public. Then there's the business. A series of unfortuante financial arrangements and the arrival in town of Oswald Martin a young ambitious rival has turned Henry's good fortune upside down. The solution to the dandelion problem is straightforward: small delicately placed servings of Arsenic will see an end to them. But what is Herbert to do about his nagging wife and the upstart Oswald. (official distributor synopsis)
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