Rent Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger (1953)
3.0 of 5 from 6 ratings
2h 38min
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- Synopsis:
A delicious double-dose of effervescent vintage comedy starring Britain's blondest bombshell, the one-and-only Diana Dors, at her saucy best. 'Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary' sees US army airman Laurie Vining hankering after a little rest and recreation with his new bride, when his gorgeous ex, Candy (Diana Dors), arrives insisting they're still man and wife. Wisecracking co-pilot Hank Hanlon (Sid James) and girl-shy lawyer Frank Betterton (David Tomlinson) try to lend a hand - but Laurie's troubles have only just begun... 'My Wife's Lodger' finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero's welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie's ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug! With striking new transfers taken from the original negatives preserved at the BFI National Archive, both films are made available here for the first time and come with a lavish fully illustrated 30-page booklet featuring essays and original promotional materials. - Actors:
- Diana Dors, David Tomlinson, Bonar Colleano, Diana Decker, Sidney James, Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane, Leslie Dwyer, Alan Sedgwick, Vincent Dowling, Vi Kaley, David Hannaford, MacDonald Parke, Audrey Freeman, Hubert Woodward, Lou Jacobi, Eileen Sands, Warren Stanhope, Peter Butterworth, C. Denier Warren
- Directors:
- Maurice Elvey
- Producers:
- David Dent
- Writers:
- Stafford Dickens, Talbot Rothwell, Vivian Tidmarsh, Dominic Roche
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Sidney James
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/06/2010
- Run Time:
- 158 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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An uneven double-bill - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger review by LC
Of the two films, I found 'Is Your Honeymoon' Really Necessary' to be terribly predictable and unfunny. It's one of those formulaic 'quick, my wife's coming - hide in the other room' bedroom farces, that stretches out a single supposedly mildly awkward situation out for its entire running time. Even the presence of Sid James can't stop this from becoming a total slog to get through.
Dors has a lesser role in 'My Wife's Lodger', but it's actually a much better film. The script is rough around the edges, and it's very hit and miss in its humour, but it does at least try to tell a reasonably engaging story, and there is some emotional heart buried in the whacky narrative.
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