Poor editing and direction must be faulted for the awkwardness of this comedy about a virginal young bride-to-be (Nancy Kwan) who creates a second personality before she is about to get married. She longs to have one last fling like her fiance is with his bachelor party, and goes around acting very strange which results in inappropriate and nosey comments by everybody she encounters from shop clerks and co-workers to elevator operators to neighbors, all done in a way that makes everybody sound like they have been sniffing helium and edited in a way where every line that they say is clipped and sounding very tinny. Kwan is adorable but the film is far too quirky and the structure is rather irritating, making it a difficult comedy to get in to easily.
Not one of Terry-Thomas's better characterizations, and Jimmy Logan is dull as her fiance. Veteran actress Bessie Love as Kwan's mother is a welcome presence, but the other supporting characters are just aggitating. There was something about the sound quality of the film that irritated me as well, not a problem with the print but with the way it was recorded and the way the characters were directed to speak their minds. After a while, it becomes a very tough film to watch, and Quan's constant arguments with her non-existent second personality (which turns her from acute young bride-to-be into a cloying attention seeker) not really attractive at all. A very dated British comedy of sex without sex that could easily fall Into obscurity and not be missed.
Not one of Terry-Thomas's better characterizations, and Jimmy Logan is dull as her fiance. Veteran actress Bessie Love as Kwan's mother is a welcome presence, but the other supporting characters are just aggitating. There was something about the sound quality of the film that irritated me as well, not a problem with the print but with the way it was recorded and the way the characters were directed to speak their minds. After a while, it becomes a very tough film to watch, and Quan's constant arguments with her non-existent second personality (which turns her from acute young bride-to-be into a cloying attention seeker) not really attractive at all. A very dated British comedy of sex without sex that could easily fall Into obscurity and not be missed.