The Reluctant Widow (film)
The Reluctant Widow is a 1950 British historical drama film directed by Bernard Knowles and starring Jean Kent, Guy Rolfe, Paul Dupuis and Lana Morris. It is based on the novel The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer, with the screenplay written by Gordon Wellesley and others. The screenplay concerns a governess who marries a British aristocrat, and inherits his country house when he dies. The ongoing Napoleonic Wars see her become embroiled with a spy ring.

It was shot at Denham Studios. The film's art direction was by Carmen Dillon while the costumes were designed by Beatrice Dawson.

Cast
 Jean Kent as Helena  
 Guy Rolfe as Lord Carlyon  
 Paul Dupuis as Lord Nivelle  
 Lana Morris as Becky  
 Kathleen Byron as Mme. Annette de Chevreaux  
 Scott Forbes as Francois Cheviot  
 Anthony Tancred as Nicky  
 Peter Hammond as Eustace Cheviot  
 Jean Cadell as Mrs. Barrows  
 Andrew Cruickshank as Lord Bedlington  
 George Thorpe as Colonel Strong  
 Ralph Truman as Scowler  
 James Carney as Major Forbes  
 Allan Jeayes as Colonel  
 Hector MacGregor as Sir Malcolm Torrens

Critical reception
Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times, "except for the rather fine surroundings and some nice eighteenth century costumes, there is no more in The Reluctant Widow than a genteel invitation to doze" ; while Robin Karney in the Radio Times found, "a good-looking but rather muddled and unsatisfactory adaptation of a novel by Georgette Heyer, which entertains in fits and starts."