Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, as well as an unlikely...

In this tale of temptation and redemption, the pleasant and peaceful life of a naive country man is turned upside down when he falls for a cold-blooded yet seductive woman from the city. She tries to persuade him to drown his virtuous wife and come back to the city with her.

"Kay Miniver doesn't fly a Spitfire in dogfights over London or ply the North Sea in a battleship, but she's doing her all for wartime England. And she does it so well that Winston Churchill would say [she] was more vital to the nation than a fleet of destroyers. A performance that won Greer Garson the Oscar, she comforts children in a bomb shelter, captures an enemy parachutist, and delivers an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper-lip British resolve"--Container....