Ronald Colman and wife Benita Hume frequently acted together on radio so they much have seen ideal for this version of the famous Terence Rattigan play, but both are miscast. Colman is too dashing, romantic and wet to play the great failure, Croker-Harris, and Hume simply isn’t up to her role as the bitchy, frustrated cheating wife. Robert Douglas plays the teacher replacing Colman with whom Hume is having an affair. The piece still has the power to move, but when Douglas asks to go work for Colman at the end you really have to scratch your head - it's like they're having an affair.
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