What Every Woman Wants
Directed byMaurice Elvey
Written byTalbot Rothwell
Based onRelations Are Best Apart by Edwin Lewis
Produced byDavid Dent
StarringWilliam Sylvester
Elsie Albiin
Brenda De Banzie
CinematographyWilkie Cooper
Edited byRobert Jordan Hill
Music byEdwin Astley
Production
company
Advance Productions
Distributed byAdelphi Films
Release date
10 June 1954
Running time
86 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.[1] It was based on a play Relations Are Best Apart by Edwin Lewis.[2] It was shot at Walton Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Stoll.

Premise

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

Critical reception

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."[3]

References

  1. โ†‘ "What Every Woman Wants (1954)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
  2. โ†‘ Goble, Alan (8 September 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. ISBN 9783110951943.
  3. โ†‘ "What Every Woman Wants". TVGuide.com.


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