John Moffatt stars as the paterfamilias in this adaptation of Noel Coward's tribute to British mediocrity. It looks at a lower middle class London family from 1918 to 1939 - the father is sensible, the mother carries on, they have three kids: a son flirts with communism, the daughter roots around, but they both come to their senses and become monotonous and dull.
There's none of Coward's wit or spark here, just a lot of sensible cockneys. It really got on my nerves after a while - its anti Labor Party bias, the fact one child is basically ignored, the strike breaking. No doubt it hit the right spot at the right time for a section of the audience but it's still dull. For working class Tories.
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