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...

Barbara is the lady in question, a woman driven by the constant desire for excitment and unfettered by any moral conscience. Barabara has quickly become bored of her aristocratic marriage and decides upon highway robbery as a ripping way to spice life up; a nocturnal activity which brings her into contact with dashing highway man, Captain Jackson. Barabara's unscrupulous deeds are eventually uncovered but this is not a woman to be triffled with, and muder is well within her abilities. The Wic find out more...