Although based upon a play by Daphne du Maurier in which Valerie Hobson becomes an M.P., the film makes Westminster seem more like a hobby than a vocation.
With the return from a P.O.W camp of Michael Redgrave (who actually seems to have lost weight for the part) playing a character harbouring a secret similar to the role he'd just played in 'The Captive Heart' it becomes more concerned with the impact the war must have had on plenty of marriages, and at about the halfway mark it moves into 'Brief Encounter' territory before the profound questions it raises are suddenly dropped and it abruptly ends.
With the return from a P.O.W camp of Michael Redgrave (who actually seems to have lost weight for the part) playing a character harbouring a secret similar to the role he'd just played in 'The Captive Heart' it becomes more concerned with the impact the war must have had on plenty of marriages, and at about the halfway mark it moves into 'Brief Encounter' territory before the profound questions it raises are suddenly dropped and it abruptly ends.