SAILOR BEWARE
(Romulus-Remus) ; G Cert,
To enjoy this English comedy (I hesitate to call it British) it is necessary to nourish an enthusiasm for the comic cliché, to share with Punch the notion that farce and the lower classes are inseparable, and that there is something essentially hilarious about mothers-in-law and the business of getting married. It is also helpful to be tone-deaf, since Peggy Mount, whose particular vehicle this is, relies for her comic impact on a voice like a well-tempered klaxon. And there are apparently thousands of filmgoers who meet those _ specifications. That I am not one of them is, I suppose, only my loss. Indeed, I do believe that. He who can no longer laugh when a comedian sits on his hat (the comedian’s hat, I mean) has lost something which the years will not replace. I lost it long ago, and though I sat out Sailor Beware to the last offstage decibel from the decibellicose Mrs Hornett, it was strictly in the line of duty, not pleasure. And the line of duty has rarely seemed so like a front line under heavy and continuous bombardment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 21
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189SAILOR BEWARE New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 21
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