Comedy Romance
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Directed by
Tristram Powell
Written by
Michael Palin, Tristram Powell
Alfred Molina
Oliver Syme
Michael Palin
Rev. Francis Ashby
Alun Armstrong
Dr. Weeks
Sheila Reid
Mrs. Weeks
Trini Alvarado
Elinor Hartley
David Calder
Pollitt
Connie Booth
Caroline Hartley
Jonathan Firth
Cable
Bryan Pringle
Haskell
Roger Lloyd Pack
Dr. Butler
Simon Jones
Anderson
Charles McKeown
Maynard
John Nettleton
Groves
Jo Stone-Fewings
Undergraduate 'King Lear'
Jimmy Jewel
Ashby Senior
Arthur Howard
Voe
Robert Eddison
Rushden - The President
Fred Pearson
Hapgood
Susan Denaker
Mrs. Cantrell
Ian Dunn
Gowers
Charles Simon
Canon Harper
Wensley Pithey
Cave
Markus Gehrig
Swiss Guide
Edward Rawle-Hicks
John Weeks
Kenneth W. Caravan
Medical Graduate(uncredited)

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