Fast-paced, incident-filled and very British comedy about two young couples who share a home to beat the housing shortage. Some households seem made for mishaps. In this one, baths overflow, kettles vainly whistle and the neighbour's dog steals the Sunday joint. The house's three bedrooms are occupied by the two married couples and a man-hungry girl lodger, played by Audrey Hepburn in one of her earliest film roles, before she went to Hollywood. Anne Burnaby puts plenty of comic business into her adaptation of Ronald Jeans' stage hit, and director Henry Cass keeps the plot bowling along through an endless series of compromising situations, giving a new twist to the 'not in front of the servants' theme. There are fine comic portrayals from Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick and the moustache-twirling Guy Middleton, who never quite got the roles he deserved. Those two senior dragons of British films, Fabia Drake and Athene Seyler, weigh in with two richly comic cameos as Nurse Blott and Miss Gallopp.


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