There's more in common here with "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" than just the presence of Sally Anne Howes and James Robertson Justice. There's the strange looking car that Howes' fiancee Nigel Buchanan owns, funny bearded men playing around with clocks and Howes invading a clock factory during inspection. I'm sure that it's just a coincidence, but there's also something mystical about Howes who knows what time it is without a watch and has a strange effect on electronics as she walks by them or is a passenger on one. Justice is her imperious dentist uncle who has an eerie effect on Howes' boyfriends by scaring them away by revealing certain secrets about her. When Buchanan runs off on her, Howes follows him to London, is on a train that mysteriously breaks down and ends up dealing with a trio of journalists, one of whom (Gordon Jackson) is fascinated by her "power".
A unique British comedy that goes from the English countryside to Fleet Street in London (no barber), the London zoo, and finally onto a plane where Howes is forced to parachute off of when the engine begins to go haywire. Rival reporter Sonia Holm decides to get the scoop on Howes and follows her all over, trying to expose Buchanan's later story as fraud. As a romance blossoms between Buchanan and Howes, she begins to think that all she is to him is a news headline and refuses to have anything to do with him.
Joyce Barbour, as Justice's spinster sister, is quite amusing and steals every one of her scenes. The scene between Justice and Buchanan in his dental office is both funny and chilling, and the humor so dry that you expect to here the sound of a cork popping as a tooth is pulled out. This has a very unique script which is like nothing that had been in American comedy, and the subtlety of the performances and a smart, witty screenplay makes this definitely worth checking out.
A unique British comedy that goes from the English countryside to Fleet Street in London (no barber), the London zoo, and finally onto a plane where Howes is forced to parachute off of when the engine begins to go haywire. Rival reporter Sonia Holm decides to get the scoop on Howes and follows her all over, trying to expose Buchanan's later story as fraud. As a romance blossoms between Buchanan and Howes, she begins to think that all she is to him is a news headline and refuses to have anything to do with him.
Joyce Barbour, as Justice's spinster sister, is quite amusing and steals every one of her scenes. The scene between Justice and Buchanan in his dental office is both funny and chilling, and the humor so dry that you expect to here the sound of a cork popping as a tooth is pulled out. This has a very unique script which is like nothing that had been in American comedy, and the subtlety of the performances and a smart, witty screenplay makes this definitely worth checking out.