It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...
The lurid lives and personal demons of the debauched, narcissistic, spoilt children of a Texas oil magnate all bathed in lurid technicolor. Self-destructive wild child Marylee wants to get it on with playboy alcoholic brother Kyle's best mate Mitch, while Kyle's marriage to executive Lucy begins to crumble and he suspects her of having an affair with Mitch.... They just don't make em like this no more.
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