The best insight in this engaging documentary comes from Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan (1904-2003).
Havelock-Allan, who produced Blithe Spirit, In Which We Serve and Brief Encounter, said of Noël Coward (1899-1973) that he was ‘not very secure. His armour is his supersophisticated façade.’
The compelling interviews in the fi lm fit with that insight. How lightning-quick Coward's mind was. How brilliant the put-downs of David Frost et
