FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
(Associated British-Kenwood Films) HE pretty girl who came out of For Better, For Worse just ahead of me and couldn’t help giving a little skip now and then as she walked along with her boy friend (or her husband-these things do happen) had the right and healthy reaction to this film. I’m not sure that I was ever quite young enough to do that sort of thing myself, and if that’s so it’s my loss. If you chose to be sniffy of were in the wrong mood you could call this film just another of those pieces about the trials of young, couples who get engaged at the pictures, overcome parental objections, rent a one-room flat and buy furniture on time payments,
have to sell their jalopy, quarrel and make up, and never have enough to live on. I suppose it is one of those pictures, but it’s so engagingly played and moves at such a good pace that I was entertained, and for a good part of the time vety pleasantly. amused. The young couple are Dirk Bogarde and Susan Stephen, and among. many welcome faces about them are Cecil Parker as Susan’s father, and Eileen Herlie as her mother, Athene Seyler as the neighbour who always wants to use the phone at the wrong time, Dennis Price as the man upstairs, Thora Hird as the char, and James Hayter as the plumber. Keep those names in mind if you don’t like the sound of the story. J. Lee-Thompson directed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 15
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255FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 891, 31 August 1956, Page 15
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