The Passionate Stranger

IMDb link: 0050784
IMDb rating: 6.2 (269 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Ralph Richardson, Muriel Box
Cast: Margaret Leighton, Patricia Dainton, Carlo Giustini and others

Release date: 26 Sep 1957
Release year: 1957
Runtime: 97 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: typewriter, wheelchair, polio, polio victim, handicapped person, disabled person, novelist, female novelist, writer, female writer

Plot:

Novelist Judith Wynter gets inspiration for her new book after her wheelchair-bound husband Roger hires Carlo, a handsome Italian chauffeur. She bases her lurid story of deception, adultery and murder on completely fictionalised characterisations of herself, Roger and Carlo. Unfortunately, the chauffeur reads a draft of the novel and naively concludes that Judith is madly in love with him in real life as well as on the page.

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