This low key British comedy is actually refreshing in that the middle class suburban Robinson family is not dysfunctional and all of the family members actually like one another. Mr. And Mrs. Robinson are a contented married couple who are about to take a Mediterranean cruise; their motive for doing this is that their bragging neighbors have already taken a couple of such cruises. Their grown son and daughter both decline going as they each have a love interest that they would rather pursue, the son with a sophisticated woman of the world and the daughter with her fiancé. At the last minute, the Robinsons decide that they would really rather vacation in Bognor Regis, a place they had been going to for years. They return home earlier than expected, much to the consternation of their children, especially the daughter who had invited her fiancé to stay at the house. The two underlying themes of sex and class are often very amusingly presented even if by today's standards out dated and quaint. Gordon Harker as Mr. Robinson is a real treat. Betty Balfour as Mrs. Robinson doesn't make much of an impression. Just ten years previously Harker and Balfour appeared together in the really good film 'Squibs', Harker played Balfour's father in that one. Of the British early post war films I've seen, this is the only one that I recall that makes no mention of WWII or of post war hardship. Even so, it represents a nice slice of life of a bygone time.
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