Summaries

Stockbroker John's daughter Pat tricks US crooner Bobby into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also challenge Dad to overcome his stuffy prejudices and, boy, does he change.

A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit, and the stockbroker notes the effect of the singer on his lovelorn family.—Steve Crook <[email protected]>

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when Stella Bentley informs her husband John that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home, bringing their husbands, penniless Parisian artist Peter and Texas cowboy Barnaby. The youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked American singer Bobby Denver into visiting them on the pretext that theirs is the home of a noted British film magnate. While all the women in the household, including the maid, fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults crackpot psychiatrist Dr. Schneider, whose advice almost succeeds in ousting not the singer but Mrs. BentleyL he suggests that Bentley make his wife jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.—Les Adams <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • reference to shakespeare's romeo and juliet
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Musical
Release date Apr 10, 1955
Countries of origin United Kingdom
Language English
Filming locations Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Production companies Group Film Productions Limited

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 31m
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

Synopsis

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