Stiff Upper Lips

Emily (Georgina Cates) is now twenty-two and ripe for marriage. Her idiotic brother Edward (Samuel West) decides, in cahoots with Aunt Agnes (Prunella Scales), to pair her off with his upper-class twit friend Cedric Trilling (Robert Portal). Emily has already had and refused a proposal of marriage from the local vicar Mr. Tweeb (Richard Braine) on the eminently sensible grounds that his eyebrows were too bushy. An accident at the family lake brings Emily very closely into contact with the naked, handsome, muscular, lower-class peasant George, and she is instantly attracted to his ripping unmentionables. Seeing the undesirability of the match, Aunt Agnes takes the family first to Italy, and then to India to try to separate the lusty, ill-matched couple, but George accompanies them as a servant.