The Delavine Affair is a 1955 British second feature[1] crime film directed by Douglas Peirce and starring Peter Reynolds, Honor Blackman and Gordon Jackson.

[2] The screenplay was by George Fisher and Basil Boothroyd, based on the 1952 novel Winter Wears a Shroud by Robert Chapman.

The story is seldom very plausible, coincidence reaches out with a long arm, and the developments and the solution have their vague aspects.

The film, though, is reasonably bright in tone, and the playing of the principals to some extent makes up in enthusiasm for what it lacks in polish.

[6] TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars, noting a "Routine crime drama.