After the infamous criminal Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins) sedates and kidnaps a beautiful girl and shuttles her off to a chateau in the south of France, it’s up to dashing Brit Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell) to rescue the fair maiden. Set in gorgeous 1920s France and adapted from Dornford Yates’s classic page-turner, this lively thriller was the first film ever shown on PBS’s long-running “Mystery!” series.
“What a lovely, murderous romp.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Starring Richard O’Callaghan, Frederick Treves, John Shrapnel, Joyce Redman, Bernard Hill.
Not rated.