And he doesn't ring twice. In fact, he doesn't ring at all. He just shows up and tells you what's in your mail, and you're expected to just laugh it off. Eynon Evans lives at the Welsh Country Inn, the Wishing Well, romances proprietor Brenda de Banzie and make sure that everybody deposits a coin in the wishing well on the property, having a contraption at the bottom of the well that collects them so he can easily pull them out. Maybe this was funny in 1954, but he's insufferable as he sticks his nose in everyone's business and nobody tells him off. The group of travelers staying at the end during this particular incident includes a married couple who don't get along, a nurse who lost her husband and is still in mourning and an insufferable old woman who complains about everything. When she indicates that her room is so small that she won't be able to get out, I had to scream at her through my TV screen, well then you need to go on a diet.

The area in which they live is pretty but very quiet, so perhaps that's a motivation for his boredom to try to interfere in the romantic issues of everybody who checks in and out. When the unhappily married husband decides he's leaving and wants to pay the bill, Evans spends more time than he should trying to talk him out of it. In fact, he's sticking his nose so much into people's business that you have to wonder when does he find time to deliver the mail. Outside of the beautiful surroundings on the gorgeous mountain road, the only interesting thing about this film is a presence of a young Petula Clark. Other than that, I was truly bored.

Brenda de Banzies runs a small public house in Wales with a wishing well. Eynon Evans is the local post man who has been trying to get Miss de Banzies to marry him for decades. Her son, Donald Houston, is engaged to be married to Petula Clark, who because he doesn't have working legs, is wracked with doubts. There's also a wealthy widow, Gladts Hay, and a young couple who aren't getting along.

It's one of those movies set in Wales where random groups start singing chorale at random moments; even Miss Clark has a rare on-screen performance. Based on a play by Evans, it hews to every stereotype about Wales you can imagine. Director Maurice Elvey opens it up with lots of vistas in the beginning. Later, when it settles down to telling its story, there are plenty of Dutch angles, none of which disguise its stage origins.

Apparently the role taken by Evans in the movie was essayed by Lupino Lane in its National Theater premiere.