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(Rank-United Artists) -ILMGOERS up'to the age of 14 or 15, and those members of other agegroups who enjoy such imaginative classics as Alf’s Button and the more fantastical stories which once enlivened the pages of the Magnet and the Gem, should find this adaptation of F. Anstey’s Victorian comedy tophole fun, Those who prefer their humour to be a little less adolescent will probably find themselves (like me) dozing, off occasionally. There is a leaven of genuinely good fun in the film, some bright lines, and two scenes which could almost be called Gilbertian, but I can’t imagine what led Peter Ustinov — reputedly one of the brighter young men of the British cinema-to spend his ¢afent on this venerable antique. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 21
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122VICE VERSA New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 21
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