The central though nearly impenetrable plot of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End is Sir Henry's (Trevor Howard) attempts to exorcise the trouserless ghost of his dead brother Humbert whom he accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident. This is aided or hindered by his mad family and servants including the tapeworm-obsessed Mrs. E; Old Scrotum the wrinkled retainer; the eternally knitting Aunt Florrie and Lady Phillipa of Stains a turkey-legged old soak. With German PoWs in the garden fishing for hairdressers a mechanical bulldog a horse in the billiards room and a marriage bed furnished with a barbed-wire divide the mayhem of Rawlinson End is endless....