This is a gentle British comedy about a group of frustrated women who live in a hostel but who cannot get any men to marry.One of the women Betty Tate, a secretary for an engineering firm, is secretly besotted by her boss (Terence Alexander) but despite her dropping hints, he is always looking the other way.Her naive cousin Sally comes from a rural village to stay with Betty in London and to help with various office duties at Betty's firm.Sally (played by Sally Smith well known for playing Jennifer Dr. Roger Corder's daughter in "The Human Jungle" mid.60s tv series with Herbert Lom) ; is seized by a compulsion to meet a millionaire while in London and only succeeds in stealing the boyfriends of Betty's friends.The girls therefore hatch a plan to rescue their fast disappearing love life by hiring an actor to impersonate a millionaire thus deflecting Sally away from their men friends.There is a gentle twist at the end of the film which leaves all parties satisfied .hence the "U" film certificate.
4 Reviews
Watchable If Obvious
boblipton13 June 2021
Ann Sears lives in a residential women's hotel and works for a small engineering firm led by Terence Alexander. She loves her boss, but he is too consumed by his lack of business ability to recognize it. On the day he finally does, Miss Sears' cousin, Sally Smith, takes up residence at the hotel and work at the firm. She also takes up all the ladies' boy friends. When she seems to be aiming at Alexander, the women club together an hire a cheap actor to play a millionaire to distract her.
It's a Danziger Brothers comedy, which means it's shot as cheaply as possible, and spends a lot of time leering at the pretty girls, like many a 1960s British comedy. Fortunately, it's well constructed in all its departments, so it comes out as a watchable effort, despite the simple and easy turns of the plot. With Michael Balfour and William Fox.
It's a Danziger Brothers comedy, which means it's shot as cheaply as possible, and spends a lot of time leering at the pretty girls, like many a 1960s British comedy. Fortunately, it's well constructed in all its departments, so it comes out as a watchable effort, despite the simple and easy turns of the plot. With Michael Balfour and William Fox.
Amusing Danziger comedy
malcolmgsw31 July 2020
One of the many N pictures made by the Danzigers in the early sities.An amusing film obviously made on a limited budget.Some entertaining scenes with Michael Balfour playing an agent.Terence Alexander is effective as the mild mannered boss secretly in love with his secretary.
efficient little British comedy
fiendz66629 March 2002
This is an amusing, efficient, well-acted British comedy about a secretary whose country cousin starts stealing everyone's men. So the secretary and her pals hire an actor (Fox) who pretends to be a millionaire and woo her. Complications ensue. Sweet little film directed by the omnipresent Godfrey Grayson, with especially good work from Fox and Balfour.
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