A decent "three girls" movie from Adelphi, who made low budget comedies and tried with this unsuccessfully to move into the "big time". i.e. mid tier Rank movies, of which this resembles.
They have two Rank stars, John Gregson and Joan Rice, who are well cast as a couple of coworkers who have a romance. There's also Josephine Griffin as a single girl who gets pregnant and Vera Day as a starsruck girl who allows herself to be seduced by Sidney Talfer who pretends to be a director.
Technically it's a four girl movie - there's a subplot about Patricia Marmont being secretly married to a man in a wheelchair who is quite controlling.
There's dark aspects to this, especially the Griffin plot - the mother of the man who slept with her calls her a slut, a man tries to rape her, her boss says she'll have to go away while pregnant and gives her a home where she can have the baby and says she can have her job back.
It's cute how Gregson - who was in Genevieve - plays a character obsessed with a car. It's not at all believable how the man who knocks up Griffin comes back.
Apart from that Talbot Rothwell's script is warm and empathetic as is John Guillermin's direction (It's weird to see him associated with this sort of movie, but he does a solid job... he was Adelphi's main director).
Strong cast including Sid James, Rachel Roberts, Joan Hickson, Freda Jackson.
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