Value for Money

A number of (I presume, younger) reviewers regard this film with some distaste, citing dated regional and gender stereotypes.

I think that they need to relax a bit.

The film is a comedy that pokes fun on males, females, northerners and southerners alike.

Beautifully photographed and well acted, but really not to be taken seriously.

Two scenes stand out.

Firstly when the errant husband's return from their jolly in the capital and the wives await.

The camera pans along the coach as one by one the male passengers wipe the condensation from the window and view the reception committee.

Dramatic irony at its finest, followed by a wide panoramic shot as each emerging man is seized by the collar and frog marched away like naughty children, with the attending threat:Wait till I get you home!

The second is the scene later that day when Chayley proclaims to Ethel that Ruthin is the most "beautiful woman he has ever seen" ;followed by reassuring his fiance that She (Ruth in) is not for me. She is an ideal placed upon a pedestal.

One does not have to be Einstein to figure out what the reaction will be.

Enjoy John Gregson as the hapless Chayley, Diana Dors in her dazzling prime with great support from the ever excellent and sadly underrated Susan Stephen.

And wallow in world long gone.