[2] A theatrical adaptation also titled A Man About the House by John Perry had been staged in London's West End in 1946, with Flora Robson as Agnes, Kieron Moore as Salvatore and Ernest Thesiger as Sanctuary.

[3] The film was produced by Edward Black and edited by Russell Lloyd, with cinematography by Georges Périnal and music by Nicholas Brodszky.

Shot at Shepperton Studios and on location around Naples, the film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew.

English sisters Ellen and Agnes Isit inherit a Neapolitan villa from a dead uncle and move to Italy to view and sell their property.

Ellen and Dench, who have fallen in love, depart to England and leave Agnes, now recovered and determined to remain at the villa and to fulfil her dead husband's wishes, tending the vineyard.

The movie was part of a slate of new films from Alex Korda which also included The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) and Night Beat (1948).

[4][5] Dulcie Gray, who starred in the film, felt Leslie Arliss was "underestimated" because he had made The Man in Grey "and he was being rubbished by critics all the time."

[8] Variety wrote "Lack of marquee names is bound to have effect on pulling power of this picture, especially for America; and the best it can attain is the dualer spot.