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What Every Woman Wants is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring William Sylvester, Elsie Albiin, Brenda De Banzie and Patric Doonan. It also features Brian Rix and Prunella Scales. It was based on a play Relations Are Best Apart by Edwin Lewis. It was shot at Walton Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Stoll.




Plot


A newly married couple have to live with the wife's parents and extended family in a small overcrowded house in the English Midlands.




Cast


William Sylvester as Jim Barnes
Elsie Albiin as Jane
Brenda De Banzie as Sarah
Patric Doonan as Mark
Dominic Roche as Bill
Joan Hickson as Polly Ann
Brian Rix as Herbert
Joan Sims as Doll
Beckett Bould as Tom
Prunella Scales as Mary
Douglas Ives as Sam
Edwin Richfield as Frank




Critical reception


The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 3/5 stars, writing: "Maurice Elvey struggles to disguise the stage origins of this adaptation of Edwin Lewis's Relations Are Best Apart. A curious mix of social realism, situation comedy and romantic melodrama, future Carry On scribe Talbot Rothwell's script centres on Middletown newlyweds Elsie Albiin and Patric Doonan, who find themselves living with her adoptive parents because they can't afford a home of their own". Wilkie Cooper's views of the industrial landscape add grit to a thoughtful project full of fascinating socio-historical detail."
TV Guide rated the film two out of five stars, and noted "a realistic drama," in which,"housing shortages and unemployment, both delicate problems in England at the time, are treated in an effective, unpreachy manner."




References






External links


What Every Woman Wants at IMDb

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