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For the Love of Ada is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Ronnie Baxter and starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell and Jack Smethurst. It is a spin-off from the television series For the Love of Ada (1970–1971).




Plot


Walter and Ada Bingley, an elderly couple, are about to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. To celebrate, their family, friends and neighbours plan a surprise party.
Their daughter Ruth entrusts her husband Leslie Pollitt with the organisation. They hire a traditional club hall for the event.
On the night though Walter and Ada do their own thing and the party goes on without them. With most of the alcohol consumed a traditional knees-up begins. Leslie eventually finds them and drags them in for a meal, but they have already eaten.




Cast


Irene Handl as Ada Bingley
Wilfred Pickles as Walter Bingley
Barbara Mitchell as Ruth Pollitt
Jack Smethurst as Leslie Pollitt
Arthur English as Arthur
Larry Martyn as Brian
Hilda Braid as Mrs Armitage
Andria Lawrence as Sandra
David Collings as Mr Johnson
John Boxer as the Vicar
Nancy Nevinson as Elsie Lockwood
Norman Atkyns as Charlie Nugent
Donald Bisset as Mr Chapman
Duggie Brown as Duggie
Johnnie Wade as Alan
Veronica Doran as Carol
Gareth Hunt as the PC
Nicholas Ram as Anthony Pollitt
Cecily Hullett as Freda Skinner
Rose Power, Jean Marlow, Rose Hill and Brian Tully as the mourners




Reception


The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "'What could be nicer,' Gilbert O'Sullivan croons questioningly over the credit titles, 'than two people young at heart?' The answer provided by the film, of course, as Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles demonstrate how very nice, how indomitably life-loving, how British and human and working-class they are, is nothing whatsoever. Adapted from the TV comedy series, For the Love of Ada is a boneless jelly of a film, setting up pointless little heartbreaks and conflicts so that it can dissolve them in a flood of cosy sentimentality. Absolutely nothing happens from beginning to end, but every cliché in the book is given a whirl, from the wife who thinks her anniversary has been forgotten, to the husband who draws back in panic when his slobbering efforts at flirtation seem likely to bear fruit, right down to the climactic 'Knees Up Mother Brown'. Like Pavlov's dogs, the characters shed tears or grin and bear it to appropriate stimuli, but life in this ghastly, thoroughly patronising concoction is reduced to a conditioned reflex."




References






External links


For the Love of Ada at IMDb

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