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Director: Anthony Asquith
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From Time Out Film Guide
In an idyllic little French language school, trainee diplomats and a sex-starved naval commander lose their hearts and minds to a winsome, gooey adventuress. Terence Rattigan's 'well made play' - a mixture of sophisticated badinage and schoolboy misogyny - now looks utterly inconsequential, redolent only of the anaemic '30s complacency which led to Munich. PM's son 'Puffin' Asquith struggles valiantly but in vain to turn it into something cinematic, and even Culver's nicely judged performance as the stoically lovesick sailor fails to life the film beyond being simply a historical curiosity. Needless to say the critics at the time thought it was wonderful.Author: RMy
Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Asquith
Producer: Mario Zampi
Cast: Ray Milland, Roland Culver, Guy Middleton, Ellen Drew, David Tree, Janine Darcy, Jim Gérald full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 85 mins
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