This is yet another of those films set in an England in which no one I have ever met actually lived in or remembers and which all of us should be allowed to live in just once in a lifetime.
Esther McCrachan's original play was a hit at Wyndham's in the late thirties and a revival starring Sarah Churchill closed at the Colisium on Saturday, September 2nd, 1939 and that pre-war spirit is captured to a fare-thee-well by Terence Rattigan's adaptation and Puffin Asquith's direction. The cast, led by Margaret Lockwood and Derek Farr includes Marjorie Reynolds reprising her stage role as the mother of the bride and if Wally Patch is a trifle suspect as a magistrate that's about the only jarring note in what remains a charming quintessential English film. Only a tad short of a perfect ten out of ten.
Esther McCrachan's original play was a hit at Wyndham's in the late thirties and a revival starring Sarah Churchill closed at the Colisium on Saturday, September 2nd, 1939 and that pre-war spirit is captured to a fare-thee-well by Terence Rattigan's adaptation and Puffin Asquith's direction. The cast, led by Margaret Lockwood and Derek Farr includes Marjorie Reynolds reprising her stage role as the mother of the bride and if Wally Patch is a trifle suspect as a magistrate that's about the only jarring note in what remains a charming quintessential English film. Only a tad short of a perfect ten out of ten.