Her Last Affaire. 1935. Great Britain. Directed by Michael Powell. Screenplay by Ian Dalrymple. With Hugh Williams, Francis L. Sullivan, Viola Keats. 4K DCP courtesy BFI National Archive. US Premiere. 68 min.
“Powell’s adaptation of Walter Ellis’s successful West End play S.O.S. was the most prestigious production he had made to date. A ‘society drama’ involving suspicion, clandestine romance and presumed murder, its cast of accomplished stage actors are nonetheless entirely upstaged by the glorious comic double-act of Googie Withers as mischievous maid Effie, and John Laurie as her pious, disapproving employer” (BFI).