Mr Know-All story
Elly, a pretty hotel maid is seduced by a guest. He gives her a valuable statuette, which he found during an archaeological dig. Elly is sacked by the manager when he finds out about the affair, but, the manager's wife has exactly the same statuette. Directed by: Gareth Davies. Story by: Paul Ableman.
11 total · 1 choice · 9 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| womanizing man | choice | Professor Max Kelada's reputation as a womanizer was well known to his academic colleagues, and he lived up to that reputation at a conference held on the Virgin Islands. |
| archaeology occupation | major | We saw a fanciful idea of what it might be like to attend an archaeology conference. |
| female attraction to bad men | major | Elly fell for the archaeologist Max Kelada only because he was an unabashed rogue. |
| husband and wife | major | Jasper Cranley's wife and baby came to visit him at the hotel. |
| male competitiveness | major | Hotel manager Jasper Cranley was worried about Max getting involved with his wife. |
| male lasciviousness | major | Professor Max Kelada was a shamelessly lecherous man. |
| prudishness | major | Professor Max Kelada characterized the hotel manager's views on women as puritanical. |
| romantic infidelity | major | Professor Max Kelada canoodled, or implied that he might canoodle, a variety of other people's partners. It was revealed at the end that the hotel manager's wife had even had a fling with Professor Max Kelada. |
| sexual norms in society | major | The hotel manager's prudish views on sex were Max Kelada's casual attitudes toward the subject. |
| uptight character vs. laid back character | major | Prudish hotel manager Jasper Cranley vs. lecherous Professor Max Kelada. |