Cheerful, colourful (as in the colour is good) comedy about a Johnny Ray type crooner who stays with an English family. Based on a popular play which like this starred Jack Buchanan as the dad.
Someone called Jerry Wayne is the singer, Janette Scott is the gal who invites him over, Jean Carson is her sister. Carson sings as does Wayne, and Diana Dors, who has more charisma that Carson or Scott. Nigel Green is Carson's boyfriend with a beard - at the end he shaves it off, and sells out like evertyone in a rnak film.
There's a subgenre of musicals about bewildered das of daughters. Buchanan has three. Susan Stephen is another one. Dors steals the film in her one scene, as an actress at a party.
This probably played better on stage.
J Lee Thompson directed. It's not exactly typical of his output but his handling is appropriate.
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