Leslie Howard reprises his dual role of two Peter Standishes from the 1929 Broadway stage
performance of Balderston’s
Berkeley Square, which in turn was
loosely based on Henry James’s unfinished novel
The Sense of the
Past. The
timeslips result in 18th-century Peter exchanging
places with his 20th-century version, and they occur via thunderstorms and an overpowering
belief by present-day Peter that the house and a diary he found there are somehow calling him
to the past.
— Michael Main