Glad Tidings! Is a low budget curiosity based on a stage play by R F Delderfield.
It is efficiently directed by Wolf Rilla with art direction by John Stoll. He would later win an Oscar for Lawrence of Arabia.
The story is creaky. Tom Forester (Raymond Huntley) is a middle aged man who has been having a discreet affair with American Kay Stuart (Barbara Kelly.)
Now his children are older, he has told them that he plans to marry Kay. Only they not so overly keen on this.
Kay tries to win them over, especially the selfish daughters. One of them is having a affair with a married man. The other has fallen with a RAF corporal who does not have enough money to provide for her.
Forester also has issues as the air force has commandeered part of the golf club.
There really is not much to this post war middle class beige comedy drama. It is so undernourished that the comedy must have been rationed.
