[4] A love story set in the 1920s between a loner schoolmaster, Jones, and the married, privileged Judith Leeward.
[6] He later wrote he felt Watson's "enthusiasm and approach merited the risk; the screenplay contained all the ingredients for a compelling film and I gave him the go-ahead."
[2][9][10] Female lead Nanette Newman had just completed The Raging Moon written and directed by Forbes, who was her husband.
"[4] He said Nanette Newman never learned how to ride a horse despite having months to do so, and that Bryan Forbes rewrote the script.
He also said his producer was more of a production manager - "this was his pension... Bryan thought it was a good idea to put the young with the old but it was a disaster, we didnt speak the same language at all.
It was a tragedy of good intentions, a blight on Nanette’s and Edward’s careers and a sad loss of income for the crew.
"[17] Over the next two weeks Forbes attempted to resuscitate the project with director John Hough but he eventually decided not to proceed and the film was abandoned.
[19] Forbes publicly blamed the cancellation on bad weather, which he said would make the film £70,000-£80,000 over budget, saying "this is too much to get back in the English market it was made for.
One film today, just one, which runs into budget trouble and has to have endless money poured into it can bring a studio to its knees."