Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont is the story of an elderly lady (Joan Plowright) who is all but abandoned in a London retirement hotel by her family - so she strikes up a friendship with a young writer (Rupert Friend). Based on the best-selling book by Elizabeth Taylor.
Director Dan Ireland shows a talent for authenticity with this heartbreaking love story based on Novalyne Price's 1988 account of her prickly romance with 1930s pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan the Barbarian. She was a schoolteacher in a small Texas town; he was the odd-ball writer who lived at home and created comic-book characters that were sexier and more violent than was considered decent by the locals.
Young and beautiful Sally still mourning the loss of her deceased husband has resigned herself to work in the textile mill care for her elderly mother and worry about her beautiful rebellious teenage daughter Vicky. However when British charmer Charlie comes to town he woos Sally until he sweeps her off her feet; that is until she finds out that Charlie is not the person he claimed to be when they met...
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