At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take 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...
A superb screen adaptation of William Gibson's play about Helen Keller who following an illness during infancy is left blind, deaf, and mute. Loved and yet misunderstood by her parents, Helen is allowed to run wild as she frustratedly struggles to communicate with the world around her. The generally held belief that Helen is a creature to be pitied, loved and incapable of intelligent interaction all changes with the arrival of a new governess Annie, played by Ann Bancroft, who having to overc find out more...
