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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967)

Director: Clive Donner

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From Time Out Film Guide

Swinging London days, so poor Hunter Davies' pleasant sub-Salinger novel, about the sexual tribulations of a grammar school sixth-former (he longs for something a bit more up-market than the snotty-nosed local bints), gets the full gloss treatment. Jamie McGregor (Evans) worked part-time for a small local Co-op, but here he's much more smartly located in a supermarket; the Stevenage council estate where he lives looks like King's Road-cum-Carnaby Street, fairly dripping with dolly birds; his dream fantasies are Dick Lester lookalikes, using speeded-up motion for good measure; and when he finally gets invited to a party, the scene looks as fashionably clichéd as the photographer's studio antics in Antonioni's Blow-Up. Donner's eagerness to pour 'swinging style' and pop songs over everything makes nonsense of the socially critical attitudes that filter weakly through from the script (by Hunter Davies himself). So charmless as to be almost unwatchable.

Author: TM 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • tony cooper said...
    Posted on Dec 03 2007 08:10 I loved this film,i fist saw it when it was on at the local cinema and watching it now reminds me of when life was fun.
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Cast & crew

Director: Clive Donner

Producer: Clive Donner

Cast: Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Angela Scoular, Sheila White, Adrienne Posta, Vanessa Howard, Diane Keen, Moyra Fraser, Denholm Elliott, Michael Bates, Maxine Audley full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 96 mins


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