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This film is one of the best of the early sixties kitchen sink dramas (Saturday Night Sunday Morning, A Taste Of Honey etc...) It is very similar to the early Coronation Street episodes. Vic is the naughty wayward draughtsman who gets to know Ingrid who ends up pregnant. Vic's Mum and Dad are your typical working class parents while Ingrid's (single? you never see her dad)parent is the excellent Thora Hird. She plays the class climbing Hyacinth Bouqet, sorry Bucket, type character mum. She has the strongest line of language in the whole film, calling Vic a "filthy disgusting pig" when all he did was "chuck up" down the back of her bast sofa after a particularly good drinking session! Cameos are Jack Smethurst and an appearance by Leonard Rossiter as the goody goody in the office at the factory where Vic works. All through, a good film of it's age and very re-watchable. See others such as mentioned above and the colour films, Spring and Port Wine and The Boulting Brother's The Family Way. All northern town dramas with an excellent example of life in the sixties which came after the time of austerity following the second world war. All films also give a shock to today's teenagers (and some adults) by showing the discipline that even layabouts had then. (See the "eat your kipper" scenes in Spring and Port Wine for further examples of discipline). I decided to buy this film as it annoyed my wife! She kept popping in for longer and longer periods whilst it was on and so did my 16 year old son. In the end they both were glued to the screen by the end.Read full review
Somewhat of a filmic British milestone, this kitchen sink drama dragged British cinema out of the navel gazing post war doldrums into the cusp of sexual liberation of the sixties. The infamous topless shot was risqué at the time but innocent today and not explicit, forerunning the likes of Darling! Modern audiences may wonder what all the fuss was about, the dreary lives of dreary people going nowhere in their lives and the pressures of unwanted pregnancy so old fashioned..
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with our era being 50's & 60's we can relate to it how thing's were"its just brill'' actor's& the story line its one great film,,
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A good vintage love story based on the book.
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Always loved this film so nostalgic
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