Diana Dors is lightning in a bottle in this film - sexy, poised, funny. She's perfectly cast as the flirty hot daughter of a lower class family. The crux of the story involves dad, Dominic Roche (who wrote the play in which this is based), coming back from the war to find the family (including Dors) barely interested, dad not sure what to do next in life, and a lodger having moved in and wanting the mother. That's a very strong idea and this gets off to a decent beginning; it touches on some The Best Years of Our LIves themes, i.e. after the war what next. Director Maurice Elvey keeps the pot boiling.
But there's not enough family scenes and far too many of dad hanging out with some boorish American played by Alan Sedgwick - they get drunk together and Dors is meant to find him cute, which doesn't work because she's too hot for him.
There's not enough Dors. But she does have a decent part and at least some screentime.
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