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What Every Woman Wants (1954 film)

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Edwin Lewis (play), Talbot Rothwell

What Every Woman Wants is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring William Sylvester, Elsie Albiin, Brenda De Banzie and Patric Doonan. It also features Brian Rix and Prunella Scales. It was based on a play Relations Are Best Apart by Edwin Lewis.

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Plot

A newly married couple have to live with the wife's parents and extended family in a small overcrowded house in the English Midlands.

Cast

  • William Sylvester - Jim Barnes
  • Elsie Albiin - Jane [credited as Elsy Albiin]
  • Brenda De Banzie - Sarah
  • Patric Doonan - Mark
  • Dominic Roche - Bill
  • Joan Hickson - Polly Ann
  • Brian Rix - Herbert
  • Joan Sims - Doll
  • Beckett Bould - Tom
  • Prunella Scales - Mary
  • Douglas Ives - Sam
  • Edwin Richfield - Frank

    • Critical reception

    TV Guide rated the film two out of five stars, and noted "a realistic drama," in which,"housing shortages and unemployment, both delicate problems in England at the time, are treated in an effective, unpreachy manner."

    References

    What Every Woman Wants (1954 film) Wikipedia
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    What Every Woman Wants (1954 film) IMDb