The tragic affair between a diplomat (John Hurt) and a planter's wife (Judi Bowker) in Southeast Asia. Jeremy Kemp, Christopher Cazenove. Mackintosh: Anton Rodgers. Directed by Don Boyd.
Kemp is a civil servant in 1948 colonial Malaya who is shot by his mistress for having affairs with other women. Turgid melodrama, badly written and appallingly played.