Saturday, April 09, 2022

Dark Comedy Comparable to Family Plot and Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

 "And thus, like the wounded oyster, he mends his shell with pearl"

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Romancing their way into fortunes, Margaret and George meet their counterparts only to learn the tragic reality of a cliché.





Margaret and George were a team, who used their considerable charms to romance others out of their fortunes. Margaret marries Samuel to inherit his millions only to learn after his untimely death that the terms of his will bound her to the estate and Samuel's manservant, William James. Changing their strategy, Margaret and George decide to get married. Instead of traveling the world to find new marks, they use the mansion to lure .them into their web. William James reluctantly agrees to help. When he meets Lennetta and Gary, William James realized that he has found who he had been seeking. Manipulating the meeting of the couples, he moves forward with each believing that he is their ally. It is only when their cons come to fruition that they realize he has another agenda.