The Charmer was a 1987 British
television serial set in the 1930s, and starring
Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer,
Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a smitten victim widow and
Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her.