LOVE'S A LUXURY
(Film Studios, Manchester) ‘| HE night I looked in on Love’s a Luxury-only because .there was a full house next door-the sound had broken down. The fitst support started and with everyone else I laughed unrestrainedly while a male. quartet ran through their first mumber or. two, silently opening and. shutting their mouths and assuming. soulful expres-sions-all with considerable virtuosity. Thus conditioned I found myself greatly entertained and amused by ‘the feature, the sort of comedy for which I usually have no taste at all. This one is about a theatrical producer whose. wife has walked out on him, He goes off to the country for quietness, and, of course, soon everyone who shouldn't be thereincluding his wife and the other woman -has joined him. The opening is stagey. After that the unwelcome entrances, misunderstandings, deceptions and what not come so fast that I just relaxed and took it. If you like English farce you'll like this film; not aiming too ‘high, it comes off very well. Those involved ipclude Hugh Wakefield, Derek Zena Marshall and Michael Medwin, and the director is Francis Searle, whose name, I’m sure, should ring a bell, but doesn’t.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 19
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196LOVE'S A LUXURY New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 823, 6 May 1955, Page 19
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