White Mischief (1987) on Netflix
Diana Delves Broughton arrives in wartime Kenya with her husband, a baronet thirty years her senior. She begins an affair with the Earl of Erroll, an aristocrat in the Happy Valley set.
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Plot summary
In 1940s Kenya, British expatriates in the Happy Valley region fill the war years with drink, drugs, parties and extramarital affairs. Diana Delves Broughton, the young wife of Sir John Henry Delves Broughton, known as Jock, lives by the couple's pre-nuptial understanding: if either falls in love with someone else, the other will not stand in the way. Diana falls for Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll, a philanderer whose other lovers include the American heiress Alice de Janze. Jock honors the agreement in public, toasting the pair at a Nairobi club. Erroll is later found shot in his car, and Jock is charged with the murder.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about White Mischief (1987)
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- Richard Attenborough was offered the lead role in White Mischief but turned it down, because he wanted to focus on directing films instead of acting.
- Sir Jock Broughton's son, Sir Evelyn, complained that the film made his father a murderer; he said his father was too drunk that night to have committed the crime and that Diana was more likely to have done it.
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The real Alice de Janzé shot herself on 30 September 1941, while Jock Delves Broughton returned to England and committed suicide with a morphine overdose in the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool in December 1942, over a year later.- In 1996, Mariette Bosch murdered Ria Wolmerans in Botswana. Both women were white South Africans, and the case was referred to as 'Botswana's white mischief', the title of the 1987 film.
