An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (Play of the Month 1969)

Adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play involving blackmail and political corruption. Directed by Rudolph Cartier and starring Margaret Leighton, Jeremy Brett and Susan Hampshire. Click on CC for English optional subtitles.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Cast & Characters:
Mabel Chiltern: Susan Hampshire
The Earl of Caversham, KG: Charles Carson
Viscount Goring, his son:Jeremy Brett
Sir Robert Chiltern, Bt, Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs: Keith Michell
Vicomte de Nanjac: Michel Faure
Mason, butler to Sir Robert: Raymond Graham
Phipps, Lord Goring's servant: Erik Chitty
Lady Chiltern: Dinah Sheridan
Lady Markby: Zena Dare
The Countess of Basildon: Magda Miller
Mrs Marchmont: Penelope Lee
Miss Mabel Chiltern, Sir Robert's sister: Susan Hampshire
Mrs Cheveley: Margaret Leighton