Flush with with having just won an Oscar, cameramen Freddie Francis got his first chance to direct. Soon typecast as a maker of horror films he however started with this 'saucy' little youth comedy shot on location in which a blossoming young Janette Scott wore leather and yank leading man George Chakiris claimed to be Canadian.
Eccentric locals are played by Athene Seyler as a dotty old aunt who quotes John Gay and reads 'Lady Chatterly' and Malcolm Keen as a drunken old thespian who recites Shakespeare.
Eccentric locals are played by Athene Seyler as a dotty old aunt who quotes John Gay and reads 'Lady Chatterly' and Malcolm Keen as a drunken old thespian who recites Shakespeare.