By this stage I’ve developed a hostility towards the Lunts, they just get on my nerves, but they weren’t too insufferable in this story. He plays a famous painter who decides to fake his own death (it starts out as a misunderstanding but he goes along with it – like The Private Life of Don Juan), taking over the identity of his former man servant. He falls for a widow (Lynne), only troubles arise when the man servant’s ex-wife turns up and he gets involved in a fraud case involving the painting. This sort of impersonating story almost always works because the structure is inherently strong – act one setup and start the impersonation; act two become attracted to other people in your new life, have stakes from lying; act three have someone from the past comes in to complicate things.
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