Another reviewer states that this film has only been shown once on television in UK - I disagree with this as my archives hold a DVD copy of a VHS tape made of a broadcast on 01/09/2002 by C5, and I am confident in stating that this film was also broadcast on 02 or 03/10/1998 also by C5.
Most of the characters in this film conform to stereotypes, and the dilemma is deciding which gender comes off worse: we see pretty Jean (Ingrid Hafner), who plans to leave doting husband Harry (Peter Halliday) on their wedding anniversary and flee the country with the proceeds of her heroin trafficking; Harry's harridan mother (Joan Heath); the omnipresent nosy next-door-neighbour Edna Jones (Patricia Burke); the inconvenient local church restoration fund collector (Barbara Lott) and her spooky acolyte; and, best of all, the casualty sister who tears Jean's Elastoplast off with barely concealed glee.
The men don't fare any better: there's Harry himself, who decides that the best course of action when finding a corpse in his bathroom is to pull up the living room floorboards to create an impromptu grave; a comedy lower middle manager husband of aforementioned nosy neighbour; a comedy dodgy builders' merchant complete with dodgy dozy Steven Berkoff lookalike sidekick; a blind piano tuner (Arthur Hewlett); a young piano student who seems to be mute (but is probably only voiceless here to save actor's fees) and, finally, Patrick Jordan as a plain clothes detective suffering from virtual brain death.
All comes right in the end though, with sexy Jean probably going to the gallows for murder - all's well that ends well - Result! 10/10 MJB
Most of the characters in this film conform to stereotypes, and the dilemma is deciding which gender comes off worse: we see pretty Jean (Ingrid Hafner), who plans to leave doting husband Harry (Peter Halliday) on their wedding anniversary and flee the country with the proceeds of her heroin trafficking; Harry's harridan mother (Joan Heath); the omnipresent nosy next-door-neighbour Edna Jones (Patricia Burke); the inconvenient local church restoration fund collector (Barbara Lott) and her spooky acolyte; and, best of all, the casualty sister who tears Jean's Elastoplast off with barely concealed glee.
The men don't fare any better: there's Harry himself, who decides that the best course of action when finding a corpse in his bathroom is to pull up the living room floorboards to create an impromptu grave; a comedy lower middle manager husband of aforementioned nosy neighbour; a comedy dodgy builders' merchant complete with dodgy dozy Steven Berkoff lookalike sidekick; a blind piano tuner (Arthur Hewlett); a young piano student who seems to be mute (but is probably only voiceless here to save actor's fees) and, finally, Patrick Jordan as a plain clothes detective suffering from virtual brain death.
All comes right in the end though, with sexy Jean probably going to the gallows for murder - all's well that ends well - Result! 10/10 MJB