TWICE ROUND THE DAFFODILS is very much a CARRY ON film in all but name. It was directed by Gerald Thomas, produced by Peter Rogers and written by Norman Hudis, like all of the early CARRY ONs, and among its cast it includes the familiar faces of Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams. However, there are some crucial differences here, not least that this film plays out as more of a character drama than a comedy. The laughs are in short supply and other than in some incidental scenes aren't really all that funny. Williams does his best and steals his scenes as the chess-playing intellectual, but otherwise this is very much par for the course. Some actors, like Juliet Mills and Donald Sinden, don't seem to think they're in a comedy at all, but rather some routine hospital drama. Others, like Donald Houston and Ronald Lewis, give good value, but I only found this halfway entertaining overall.
Review of Twice Round the Daffodils
