Belle Chrystal as the girl is suitably spunky and Edmund Gwenn as her father gives a typical Edmund Gwenn performance. She's one of British cinema's great monsters - a harpy in black bombazine. Incidentally, she was in the original production of the play as the son's posh girlfriend. Because of the play's classic status the censors seem to have left it alone. There's even a suggestion of a romance between the girl and a young mill hand at the end which is quite unnecessary, but at least she doesn't come to a bad end for her sins.
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Victor Saville, Angus Macphail. It was too much to ask that the fourth version of Stanley Houghton's classic play would be as great as versions two and three . But it really shouldn't have been this bad. The girlie is an inadequate Lisa Daniely and she has the hots for aging juvenile Brian Worth. The only real surprise is that she puts up with Brian Worth long enough to lose her virginity.