

White Mischief
In a world of wife swapping, drugs and chocolate covered lobsters, murder seemed so uncivilised.
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.
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- Released
- Budget
- $5.3M
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- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- upper class
- africa
- nairobi
- murder
- kenya
- hedonism
- decadence
- 1940s
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalR22 Apr 1988
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1810 Nov 1987
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical21 Aug 1988
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1616 May 2007
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1820 May 1988
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White Mischief was released on 10 November 1987.
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2- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/2/2023
"Alice" (Sarah Miles) moves to colonial Kenya with her elderly husband "Jock" (Joss Ackland) and soon she is enjoying the social whirl that is their unfettered lifestyle. She falls in easily with the great and the good - even befriending the all-but-mute "Colvile" (John Hurt) but it's not that dalliance that worries her husband, though. It's one with the debonaire Earl of Erroll (Charles Dance) and soon a rather emba…
- K4/10
kevin2019
6/13/2024
"White Mischief" provides an account of what the vapid British elite did when the Luftwaffe began the blitz on London - they simply packed up their stiff upper lips and ran away to Kenya to continue indulging in the obscene and debauched life of privilege which they had become accustomed to. A life which was no doubt an accident of birth instead of an admirable and triumphant rise out of the oppressive and unforgivin…
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