Lady Barbara Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) is frustrated by the stifling conventions of seventeenth century England and asserts her independence through stealing her best friend’s husband, turning to gambling and becoming a highwaywoman. But for how long can she keep up her double life before she’s unmasked?

What’s a Melodrama season without a Gainsborough melodrama! Between 1943 and 1947, the British studio made a series of lurid melodramas derided by criticism but loved by audiences dominating the box office at the time when ticket sales were at an all time high. Get ready to mop those brows because this is 1940s at it’s most racy!

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