It's particularly dissonant because Richardson is, of course, charming, and nothing like the big ugly thuggish brute that Drummond was in the novels. And he gets to display his real-life enthusiasm for motorcycles and fast cars by doing his own stunts, in scenes more exciting than anything Ronald Colman (who, of course, played a Drummond scrubbed of his fascism) ever did.

You've mentioned this movie! I am torn between wanting to see Ralph Richardson do his own stunt driving and not at all wanting to see him play Oswald Mosley.