No film I ever saw was any more dramatic than the story of my parents, whose marriage was so soon overtaken by a tragedy that received huge publicity and effectively destroyed the happiness of both.

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Lieutenant Douglas Malcolm, his father, murdered his mother's lover, but was acquitted at the Old Bailey in 1917 the jury concluding it was a justifiable homicide and the judge accepting it as a crime passionnel.

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