What Mad Pursuit? (1985)

Set in the 1930s, a well known British author (Paul Daneman) on a tour of America is invited by a Manhattan socialite (Carroll Baker) to her Long Island mansion for a weekend of rest and quiet. However, it turns out that rest and quiet are the last things he gets as the weekend turns out to be a disaster. Based on the short story by Noel Coward and directed by Tony Smith. This amusing if lightweight piece of fluff is practically a throwaway. The characters are typical Noel Coward characters, tossing off witty and bitchy one liners but who would exhaust you in real life and in this story, they exhaust the writer who just wants to rest and sleep but is prevented at every opportunity by rather shallow and self centered social butterflies. With Neil Cunningham, Jacqueline Pearce, Jane Carr and Phillip Joseph.