Summary
Emily Delmar—equal parts porcelain-doll poise and stick-of-dynamite defiance—slips through the keyhole of propriety one moon-drunk night, trading lace curtains for the staccato jazz of a dimly lit boîte. Keys forgotten, she drifts into the orbit of Richard Trotter, a suitor whose smile promises both rescue and ruin. Their nocturnal odyssey ricochets from his bachelor den—where shadows flirt with Art-deco ashtrays—to the salt-laced corridors of a beachfront hotel, every corridor a proscenium for scandal. Aunt Geraldine, corseted sentinel of reputation, barrels in with Herbert Threadgold, the would-be fiancé whose moustache bristles with entitlement. One glimpse of Emily’s damp chemise and Richard’s unbuttoned collar, and the trio of propriety, desire, and gossip collide like cymbals in a symphony of whispers. The tide, indifferent, keeps breathing against the pilings while reputations calcify in the moonlight.
Synopsis
Stubborn Emily Delmar sneaks out of the house to go to a nightclub, and when she discovers that she has left her house keys at home, decides to spend the evening at the apartment of Richard Trotter, a young man who is pursuing her. Trotter comes home to find her there, and proceeds to take her to the house of her Aunt Geraldine. On the way there they stop at a beachfront hotel for dinner, and Emily, not ready to go to her aunt's house just yet, hatches a scheme to stay overnight and have a swim. Unfortunately, her Aunt Geraldine and Herbert Threadgold, a rival for Emily's affections, arrive at the hotel, see Richard and Emily there and assume "the worst". Complications ensue.
Director
Cast
