Sinopsis

An ingenious satire, Buried Alive is Bennett at his most charming and wittiest. It is the story a renowned but exceedingly shy painter, Priam Farll, who assumes the identity of his dead valet, Henry Leek, as a means of avoiding press attention. After the funeral in Westminster Abbey, Priam Farll marries a widow and lives a happy life until the loss of his wife’s money means he has to take up painting again. The novel was enormously successful as a play, retitled The Great Adventure, and later as the film Holy Matrimony.