My Wifes Lodger
5 /10 1 Votes
Director Maurice Elvey Music by Francis Essex Duration Country United Kingdom | 4.8/10 IMDb Genre Comedy Cinematography Phil Grindrod, Les Harris Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Stafford Dickens , Dominic Roche Release date October 1952 (1952-10) Cast Dominic Roche (Willie Higginbotham), Olive Sloane (Maggie Higginbotham), Leslie Dwyer (Roger the Lodger), Diana Dors (Eunice Higginbotham), Alan Sedgwick (Tex), Vincent Dowling (Norman Higginbotham)Similar movies Related Maurice Elvey movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My Wife's Lodger is a 1952 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane and Leslie Dwyer. The screenplay concerns a who soldier returns home after the Second World War only to find a spiv lodger has established himself in his place. It was based on the play My Wife's Lodger written by Roche.
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Critical reception
TV Guide wrote, "the energy of the ensemble partly makes up for the film's lack of coherence and taste." The 'Daily Film Renter' (quoted in BFI Screenonline) wrote, "the acting is of the 'Ee-bai-goom' school and the dialogue is the ripe, uninhibited language of the music hall... as briny as jellied eels on Southend Pier." In 'CathodeRayTube.co.uk', Frank Collins writes, "there are some genuinely laugh out loud moments here and the humour derived from the antics of such a dysfunctional family reflect many of the tropes that would find their way into British sitcoms of the late 1960s and 1970s where other ideological wars would be fought - based on gender, class, race and religion."
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My Wife's Lodger WikipediaMy Wifes Lodger IMDb My Wifes Lodger themoviedb.org