contains spoiler . the british director j. lee thompson make some excellent film and notably ice cold in alex and cape fear and but country dance be one of his more curious offering . the story be set among the upper class of rural scotland and and detail the strange triangular relationship between sir charles ferguson and an eccentric aristocratic landowner and his sister hilary and and hilary estrange husband douglas and who be hop for a reconciliation with her . we learn that during his career a an army officer and charles be regard a have low moral fibre . this appear to have be an accurate diagnosis of his condition while throughout the film he display an attitude of gloomy disillusionment with the world and and his main source of emotional support seem to be hilary and his whisky bottle . the film end with his committal to an upper class lunatic asylum . peter otoole be and when he be at his best a in lawrence of arabia and one of britain leading actor and but the quality of his work be very uneven and and country dance be not one of his good film . he overact frantically and make charles into a caricature of the useless inbred aristocrat and a though he be audition for a part in the monty python upper class twit of the year sketch . susannah york a hilary and michael craig a douglas be rather well and but there be no really outstanding act performance in the film . there be also little in the way of coherent plot and beyond the tale of charles inexorable downward slide . the main problem with the film and however and be neither the act nor the plot and but rather that of the theme that dare not speak it name . there be half hearted hint of an incestuous relationship between charles and hilary and or at least of an incestuous attraction towards her on his part and and that his dislike of douglas be motivate by sexual jealousy . unfortunately and even in the swinging sixty and early seventy ( the date of the film be variously give a either 1969 or 1970 ) there be a limit to what the british board of film censor be willing to allow and and a film with an explicitly incestuous theme be definitely off limit . ( the american title for the film be brotherly love and but this be not use in britain while be it too suggestive for the liking of the bbfc . ) these hint be therefore never develop and we never get to see what motivate charles or what have cause his moral collapse and result in a hollow film with a hole at it centre . 4/10 .