Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboy’s girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse…

• Springbok Productions
• Dirk Bogarde
• James Fox
• Sarah Miles
• Wendy Craig
• Catherine Lacey
• Richard Vernon
• Harold Pinter
• Ann Firbank