Unexpected
*possible spoilersI remember watching this with my parents one evening when I was bored. I must confess I do have a soft spot for these bland British films of the fifties with their incestuous casts and inoffensive plots.
However this film is actually surprisingly dark. Our heroine is offered the part of Lady Godiva in a city pagent (though chastely dressed), is spotted by a beauty queen scout and she doesn't look back. However the beauty contest is fixed - she only wins because she has swapped costumes with another girl and the judges were told to pick the girl wearing it... Having been picked up by showbiz she is promptly dropped and eventually- no one wanting to employ a washed up model in the dramatic world -she is cast in a french review, as a nude, probably the equivalent of a porn film today.
Rescue comes in the shape of her family and an Australian who takes her to Oz, weds her and they live happily - though she is a little battle scarred.
It has the appearence of a typical bland film of the era, but it does contain hidden depth. The old story of a girl being abandoned by the showbiz that courted her is timeless. A remake might be in order to give it a wider audience.
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thecatsmotheruk 21 December 2003
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