Normally it took John Ford to make a film set in Ireland as phoney as this!
There must have been quite an audience for films about gee-gees for Eastmancolour (sic) and CinemaScope (beautifully shot by Jack Hildyard) to have been lavished upon this gallumphing nonsense so soon after Ealing Studios squandered Technicolor on 'The Rainbow Jacket'; complete with an excruciating 'Oirish' score by Philip Green. (At least horse racing and the wide screen make a good fit; although the final race meet is over surprisingly quickly.)
Stringer Davis plays a doctor in a rare appearance in a film without his wife Margaret Rutherford; while Charles Hawtry turns out to have only a very brief role indeed. Raymond Glendenning as himself sports his luxuriant real moustache while Reginald Beckwith also has a weird little one in his brief cameo as an insurance broker.
Peggy Cummins hardly looks a day older than in 'Green Grass of Wyoming' several years earlier; but sadly discards her trousers for party frocks (along, thankfully, with her American accent) after returning from finishing school. There's quite a bit a sex talk between her and Terence Morgan, but he's such a wet blanket it comes across as creepy rather than saucy...
There must have been quite an audience for films about gee-gees for Eastmancolour (sic) and CinemaScope (beautifully shot by Jack Hildyard) to have been lavished upon this gallumphing nonsense so soon after Ealing Studios squandered Technicolor on 'The Rainbow Jacket'; complete with an excruciating 'Oirish' score by Philip Green. (At least horse racing and the wide screen make a good fit; although the final race meet is over surprisingly quickly.)
Stringer Davis plays a doctor in a rare appearance in a film without his wife Margaret Rutherford; while Charles Hawtry turns out to have only a very brief role indeed. Raymond Glendenning as himself sports his luxuriant real moustache while Reginald Beckwith also has a weird little one in his brief cameo as an insurance broker.
Peggy Cummins hardly looks a day older than in 'Green Grass of Wyoming' several years earlier; but sadly discards her trousers for party frocks (along, thankfully, with her American accent) after returning from finishing school. There's quite a bit a sex talk between her and Terence Morgan, but he's such a wet blanket it comes across as creepy rather than saucy...