QUIET WEEKEND (1946) IN SOUTH AFRICA

An invitation to a country retreat unleashes hidden passions in thiswitty adaptation of Ester McCracken s famous wartime stage comedy.Billed "The Film of the Play that Beat the Blitz!", QuietWeekend reunites Silent Dust 's Derek Farr withMarjorie Fielding and Frank Cellier, reprising their roles from the1941 hit Quiet Wedding; released in 1946, it is featured herein a brand-new digital transfer with its as-exhibited theatrical aspectratio. Arthur and Mildred Royd invite some friends for a quiet weekend in thecountry. Among the guests is a middle-aged magistrate too shy topropose to the woman he loves, and young Miranda not too shy at all toshow her affections for distant cousin Denys Royd, ten years hersenior. The arrival of an abrasive London sophisticate puts the catamong the pigeons, but worse is to come when Arthur and the magistratefind their fishing trip turning into a salmon-poaching spree...