Shown this and Helen Shapiro's only other movie 'It's Trad Dad' side by side you'd be hard pressed to say which director was to prove the one to watch - and it's hard to remember now that fifty years ago Michael Winner seemed promising.
But that WAS a very long time ago, when beatniks rather than hippies were parodied (Marianne Stone had recently played a similar role for Stanley Kubrick in 'Lolita') and 7/6d seemed like an extortionate sum to be billed in a nightclub.
Winner seems to have been working with a bigger budget but an even triter script than Lester, and the heroine (Anna Palk) is that old cliche from thirty years earlier: a runaway heiress! Winner nevertheless breezes with gusto through all this nonsense and it's all pleasantly enjoyable to sit through.
"Well that's it everybody! Keep twisting!!"
But that WAS a very long time ago, when beatniks rather than hippies were parodied (Marianne Stone had recently played a similar role for Stanley Kubrick in 'Lolita') and 7/6d seemed like an extortionate sum to be billed in a nightclub.
Winner seems to have been working with a bigger budget but an even triter script than Lester, and the heroine (Anna Palk) is that old cliche from thirty years earlier: a runaway heiress! Winner nevertheless breezes with gusto through all this nonsense and it's all pleasantly enjoyable to sit through.
"Well that's it everybody! Keep twisting!!"