Hatter's Castle (1942)

Directors

Lance Comfort

Cast

Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Emlyn Williams

The story

James Brodie is an authoritarian haberdasher in late 19th-century Scotland who maintains a strict household while keeping barmaid Nancy as his mistress. When her former lover Dennis visits, they conspire to set him up as her stepbrother working as a salesman in Brodie's shop. Dennis intoxicates and seduces Brodie's daughter Mary, leaving her pregnant and disconsolate when he abandons her after discovering Brodie is insolvent.

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