This film popped up on Talking Pictures recently, a channel that shows lots of older movies, a few of them great, many not so. I was around in the 60s, and might have enjoyed this at the time, wondering if 'glamorous' London really was. There were quite a few films like this, and TV shows, desperate to be in the moment, packed with fun moments, jazzy title sequence, lively music, never letting the characters have many downer moments for too long.
Quite a few reviews on here have indulged this movie ("just a bit of fun") and I'd have to say that it's not to be discarded lightly. No, it should be hurled with great force from a height, so it travels away from you, it really is the most abysmal tripe.
Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave do their best (hence the 2 that I generously gave the film), but the script gives them little chance to shine, the director wants to keep teen audiences happy by showing thighs and mini-skirts, and some well known supporting faces ham it up as directed. The script (?!) seems to have had 2 glaring holes, and to help pass an hour and an excruciating half we're given 2 painfully long slapstick sequences, one a fight squirting tomato sauce, mustard, etc in a greasy spoon cafe, the other one throwing custard pies in a restaurant helpfully serving pies. I may have misjudged the last half hour, as I fell into a deep slumber in the pie chucking section, but I doubt it suddenly leapt into an award winning presentation, especially as the Razzies (for on-screen drivel) hadn't been invented then. The film DOES have some shots of London in that period, so a few people wanting to reminisce might enjoy that side of things, but otherwise I'd say the whole thing was a waste of the fag packet it was dreamed up on.
Quite a few reviews on here have indulged this movie ("just a bit of fun") and I'd have to say that it's not to be discarded lightly. No, it should be hurled with great force from a height, so it travels away from you, it really is the most abysmal tripe.
Rita Tushingham & Lynn Redgrave do their best (hence the 2 that I generously gave the film), but the script gives them little chance to shine, the director wants to keep teen audiences happy by showing thighs and mini-skirts, and some well known supporting faces ham it up as directed. The script (?!) seems to have had 2 glaring holes, and to help pass an hour and an excruciating half we're given 2 painfully long slapstick sequences, one a fight squirting tomato sauce, mustard, etc in a greasy spoon cafe, the other one throwing custard pies in a restaurant helpfully serving pies. I may have misjudged the last half hour, as I fell into a deep slumber in the pie chucking section, but I doubt it suddenly leapt into an award winning presentation, especially as the Razzies (for on-screen drivel) hadn't been invented then. The film DOES have some shots of London in that period, so a few people wanting to reminisce might enjoy that side of things, but otherwise I'd say the whole thing was a waste of the fag packet it was dreamed up on.