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The story of Alma Rattenbury is based on a series of documented true events It involves a love triangle, a murder, an operatic suicide and a sensational trial that transfixed a nation. The key characters are an established and very successful architect and a beautiful younger woman who had been a child musical prodigy. Alma Victoria Packenham, after serving as a nurse in the fields of France during W.W.1. was awarded the ‘Croix de Guerre’, and had been married twice before meeting Frances Mason Rattenbury. He was 53, married with grown up children. Alma was 28. Ignoring their devoted family and respected colleagues , they became outlawed by the local society for their open affair. In the face of the adversity and committed to each other, they decided to move to England. Alma intent on pursuing her career as a songwriter and Ratz believing he could restore his renowned reputation as an architect. Before arriving in the U.K they embarked on a luxury cruise through the Greek Islands, Ratz was drinking steadily and began gambling a large chunk of his relative wealth. By the time they moved into the small modest house in Bournemouth, England, their relationship had been re-evaluated. Ratz dependent on alcohol to support his damaged career and, absorbed by self-pity And although was supportive, she found herself without friends and advertised for a housekeeper. Enter Irene Riggs, who was to become a devoted companion, followed by Stoner, a handyman still in his teens, hired to help around the home and garden. With their lives interwoven, what followed was to wreak havoc on each of them. A love affair between a married woman and a uneducated handyman half her age. A murder, a sensational trial, a graphic suicide and an acquittal of the death sentence. It was to create an early ‘paparazzo’ and proved to be a worthy harbinger acknowledging our current obsession with the tabloid press.

Full length movie script 110 pages