Thanks to the timely intercession of a television man (John Cleese), journalist “Sally” (Barbara Ferris) is introduced to temperamental maestro “Zelter” (Oskar Werner) from whom she manages to to elicit a few too many home truths which she gets published. Embarrassed a little and encouraged by his agent to take a break whilst the dust (and litigation) settles, he returns to his stately home where his wife (Virginia Maskell) and young family enjoy a comfortable existence. What’s clear from the start is that this man sees no real reason to keep it in his trousers, and so a repeat meeting with the impressionable young “Sally” sets off what becomes a rather dull and repetitive series of adventures for a man whose talents with the baton in his hand are second only to his determination to run roughshod over all the people he loves, or love him, with the one between his legs. Indeed, even his about to be divorced friend “Larry” (Donald Sutherland) warns him of the short-sightedness of his ways but this man cannot learn from his increasingly damaging peccadilloes. Meantime, “Sally”begins becomes torn between her new feelings for this man and those for his predecessor. Though there is some fine detail to the production, and the musical score that accompanies this effortlessly combines the original George Delerue music with some beautifully orchestrated Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorák, the…

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