Set in the late 19th century, this light romantic comedy revolves around how idealistic young doctor, Mortimer Granville came up with the world's first electromechanical vibrator. It also skates, very lightly, over the rather more serious issue of ‘hysteria’, applied in a medical term to encompass anyt find out more...
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...