The writers must have gorged themselves on cheese & pickles before penning this latter-day Old Mother Riley vehicle (complete with a genuinely weird fantasy sequence featuring a talking bust, an animate piano and dancing girls).
On paper it doesn't sound too appetising, but John Harlow directs smoothly, with occasional burst wipes and a heart-shaped iris-in to keep it moving, and graceful camerawork by veteran Jimmy Wilson. The pupils include a young Pat Owens and (unbilled) the staff an even younger Katie Boyle.
On paper it doesn't sound too appetising, but John Harlow directs smoothly, with occasional burst wipes and a heart-shaped iris-in to keep it moving, and graceful camerawork by veteran Jimmy Wilson. The pupils include a young Pat Owens and (unbilled) the staff an even younger Katie Boyle.