Swinging Sixties, anti-Establishment , empty comedy-drama of this sort:
"Were you hoping I'd go to bed with you?"
"Yes."
"All right then."
"Why?"
One of those distinctly sixties films in which scenes crash cut into each other, though does benefit from one quite imaginative sequence which cross cuts public school oiks' pursuit of a man with them as schoolboys. (School scenes filmed at Highgate School.) Reed is an ex ad exec with about fourteen different girlfriends and a little daughter called 'Thing'. Q found Harry Andrews' behaviour so off-putting that she quit after 55 minutes.
Oliver Reed, Orson Welles, Wendy Craig, Carol White, Marianne Faithfull, Norman Rodway, Michael Hordern, Harry Andrews, Frank Finlay, Ann Lynn, Harvey Hall (a memorable bully), Edward Fox.
One of the earliest "fuckings" on British film.
Gorgeously photographed in and around London by Otto Heller, music by Francis Lai, admittedly admirable editing by Bernard Gribble (Man in the White Suit, The Jokers).
It was OK.
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