- Also known as:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1958 -
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Best Performance(s):
- Kenneth Williams
- Joan Sims
- Charles Hawtrey
- Sid James
- Kenneth Connor
- Peter Butterworth
- Bernard Bresslaw
- Hattie Jacques
- Jim Dale
- Barbara Windsor
- Jack Douglas
- Terry Scott
- others
- Plot:
- Men try to have sex with women who pretend they are not interested.
- Theme(s):
- Personal change
- Self-expression
- Compassion
- Similar To (in Plot, Theme & Style):
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- DVD
Basically, a load of old rubbish - but you just cannot help laughing!
These films are proof that the old jokes are usually the best. Here we have an affectionate tribute to male sexual arousal that can only be appreciated by those who are willing to laugh at themselves.
Like visiting old friends, these movies are all good, clean fun – appealing to honest to goodness vulgarity. Much of the comedy springs from the tension between the sheer rudeness of the ideas expressed, and the often profoundly-innocent manner in which they are presented.
Like the Hammer horror films of their day, these work because they take second-rate material; while providing first-rate artistes to deliver it. They work precisely because they are not very good along with the feeling that such superb comedy troopers could not possibly wish to associate themselves with something so tawdry. This explains why transferring saucy seaside postcard humor that, up until the late 1950s, was still regularly being burned in government incinerators as obscene or indecent works so well. The sheer familiarity of the material, in this case, breeds loving affection rather than hot-faced contempt.
The quality of individual films is highly variable - some look as though they were made far too quickly with far too limited a budget. However, as ever, it is the fondness we have for the performers that usually wins the day. The women look at men wryly and condescendingly while the men, themselves, are irredeemably hapless – just like real life!
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