What Every Woman Wants

1954

Action / Drama

4
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 122 122

newlywed living with parents

Plot summary

Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?

Director

Maurice Elvey Photo
Maurice Elvey

Top cast

Joan Sims Photo
Joan Sims as Doll
Prunella Scales Photo
Prunella Scales as Mary
William Sylvester Photo
William Sylvester as Jim Barnes
Edwin Richfield Photo
Edwin Richfield as Frank
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
809.78 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds ...
1.47 GB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by richardchatten 5 / 10

What Prunella Wants

The faux saucy title combined with the fact that it's an Adelphi production, the name in the credits of director Maurice Elvey and future 'Carry On' writer Talbot Rothwell - soon followed by the extraordinary sight of Brian Rix and Prunella Scales in cycling shorts - suggests a comedy.However, the scenes shot on location in a factory more accurately belong in a drama about industrial relations with many of the cast, notably Brenda de Banzie as a sort of Mancunian Mother Courage, William Sylvester as the prospective son-in-law wounded in Korea and Patric Doonan railing against "this capitalist war" seeming to to be taking it all very seriously indeed.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 7 / 10

Family Circus.

A young married couple dealing with a limited income and high rents move in with family, deal with interfering mothers, other visitors coming in and out, turning this house into the infamous "Do Drop Inn". Elsie Albiin and Patric Doonan are the struggling couple whose mothers (Brenda de Banzie and Joan Hickson) think they know best, Hickson playing the worst kind of battle axe who never shuts up and gets uppity when she's told to shut up and stop interfering. Issues at the local factory also creates problems, followed by many misunderstandings that has the family thinking that Alibin is seeing another man secretly. Pride causes the marriage to fall apart, and finally it's the older men in the family who have to stand up and put in their two cents even though they haven't been a help in giving the young couple enough privacy to make a go of their marriage. A funny twist involving one of the younger sons ends the film with an ironic twist.Even with the stereotypical characters, this is a fun little comedy with some drama added, based on a popular British play. The cast is excellent, and even Hickson, who seems to be playing the character deliberately over the top and annoyance to make a point of the hideousness of characters like this, gets to be funny, especially as she gets taken down. The title sequence is very amusing with all these very political pieces of graffiti followed by a declaration of a desire for "more beer" giving an idea of the type of community this family lives in. Certainly, the home becomes rather uncomfortable to live in even for those who have been there for years as they deal with it getting crowded to the point of recklessness. It may be a product of the fifties economy, but there are certainly elements of the film that stand out as issues still prevalent today.
Read more IMDb reviews

No comments yet

Be the first to leave a comment