Plots(1)
Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently divorced inventor who becomes a scientist for the War Office to escape women, especially overtalkative, nagging ones like his ex-wife. Unfortunately, his female-free peace is disturbed when an American colonel and his mute daughter, who stopped speaking after a terrifying torpedo attack during a visit to Blighty, comes to work there. The inventor finds the quiet lassie utterly charming and so marries her. Unfortunately, soon afterward, the girl suffers another shock and begins talking again. Now it seems as if she is trying to make up for lost time and this drives the insensitive inventor crazy. They have a big fight and she ends up running away. Unfortunately, she is pregnant and so later agrees to return and never speak when he is around. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Hugh Williams
UK
Best movies:
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Doctor Faustus (1967)
Khartoum (1966)
Joan Greenwood
UK
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Father Brown (1954)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Basil Radford
UK
Best movies:
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Dead of Night (1945)
Naunton Wayne
UK
Best movies:
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Dead of Night (1945)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Eileen Joyce
Australia
Best movies:
Man of Flowers (1983)
Hartley Power
USA
Best movies:
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Million Pound Note (1954)
Dead of Night (1945)
Garry Marsh
UK
Best movies:
The Magic Box (1951)
Dead of Night (1945)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Michael Hordern
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Shogun (1980) (series)
Jane Hylton
UK
Best movies:
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
The Wild Geese (1978)
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)