The storyline of a crusading middle class woman exposing the shoddy housing work carried out by the council, which in turn leads to serious public health issues, sounds like a promising foundation for a compelling, citizen versus local bureaucracy film. Sadly, it's far from compelling, as the actors are so frightfully nice, polite and well mannered that you drown in gentility! The ingredients of tension, confrontation and cynicism are absent, as the actors go through the motions of what feels like a dreary radio play. If this film had been made in the US, it would have been an emotional roller coaster, with a top actress being given ample room to display her full range of feelings, instead Jill Esmond gives a muted, one note performance, and thus the film never gets beyond the level of mediocrity.
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