Wilt, released in North America as The Misadventures of Mr. Wilt, is a 1989 film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, Alison Steadman, and Diana Quick. It is an adaptation by LWT of the 1976 novel Wilt by author Tom Sharpe. The story follows the comic misadventures of the eponymous Henry Wilt as he is accused of the murder of his wife when she suddenly goes missing after a party at a friend's house where they have a very public argument. Plot summary Henry Wilt is a demoralised and professionally under-rated assistant lecturer at a community college in Mid Anglia who is dominated by his psychologically immature wife Eva and thus fantasises about murdering her. During a night walk to relieve his frustrations, he accidentally busts an undercover operation by Scotland Yard Inspector Flint, earning him the latter's undivided attention. Three weeks afterwards, something that looks like a body is found in a construction foundation on the college grounds. Since its appearance coincides with Eva Wilt's mysterious disappearance the night before, and with the Wilts' abandoned car found nearby, Henry is quickly suspected and investigated for murder by Flint. Pleading innocence, Henry relates that the night before, he and Eva had attended a party hosted by their wealthy friends, Hugh and his glamorous wife Sally. Sally, who has grown tired of Hugh and has turned lesbian, wished to win Eva over to her side; when Henry caught her attempting to seduce his unsuspecting wife and confronted her in private, he ended up accidentally knocking himself out. Exploiting this opportunity, Sally stripped Henry down and tied an inflatable sex doll to him. When Eva saw him trying to wrest himself free, she was scandalised and fled to Sally, who subsequently (and unknown to the rest of Eva's social environment) invited her to a yacht trip on the local river. After being liberated, the humiliated Henry dumped the doll into the wet foundations at the building site. Even though the evidence and the witness testimonies are ambiguous at best, Flint becomes obsessively fixated on the idea that Henry is the dangerous mass murderer currently wanted by the police. That attitude is exacerbated even when the doll is recovered from the construction site, since Flint believes it to be a decoy set up by Henry and Eva's body was disposed of elsewhere. Wilt unexpectedly incriminates himself as a