FATHER'S DOING FINE
(Associated British) HUMOUR is a personal affair, and it is possible that there are filmgoers who will laugh as loudly as I groaned over this farrago of faded nonsense. I don’t know what depressed me most about it. Perhaps I suffered some deepseated psychic trauma at the sight of Heather Thatcher (one of the lusher pin-ups of my adolescence) in the role of a feather-headed matron of uncertain age. Certainly I was depressed at the sight of Richard Attenborough and Noel Purcell squandering their talents in sub-standard farce. If you saw Quiet Wedding or Quiet Week-end; approach Father’s Doing Fine with caution. The crazy family framework is common to them all. Beyond that Father ‘is nothing but a heap of dust and clichés, without wit enough to keep it sweet (if I may crib a phrase from Dr. Johnson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 22
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142FATHER'S DOING FINE New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 769, 15 April 1954, Page 22
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