The Bachelor Father

Lonely in his English country estate Sir Basil decides to gather his grown (albeit illegitimate) children around him in his declining years. He uses a ledger which keeps track of the payments he has been making to ex-lovers to locate 2 of them and a third is found by a lawyer in New York her mother was too proud to accept any money. Sir Basil is a curmudgeon and his three adult children have a hard time with him at first. Toni the American is a free spirit who had a budding career in show business. Jeffery is English and a semi-gentleman and Maria is Italian with a Latin temperament. They begin to bond especially Sir Basil and Toni whose outgoing personality finally wins over the old man. But past lives begin to creep back into the picture and threaten the old man's plans for a life filled with his children.