A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Leslie Phillips Geraldine McEwan Julia Lockwood Irene Handl Esma Cannon Noel Purcell Joan Hickson June Jago Cyril Raymond Alan Gifford Sydney Tafler Brian Oulton Eric Pohlmann Patricia Jessel Brian Rawlinson Michael Sarne Joy Shelton Earl Cameron Pearl Prescod Peter Howell Marion Mathie Peggy Simpson Noel Hood Cyril Chamberlain Christopher Witty Martin Stephens Francesca Annis Haydn Evans Michael Gowdy Show All…
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A young married couple turn their family estate into a holiday home for rich kids.
No Kidding comes from the same team that brought you the Carry Ons and there is more than a hint of the preceding year's Carry On Teacher about proceedings.
It stars Leslie Phillips who in that earlier film played an academic who thought that children should be allowed to express themselves freely and here they are encouraged to do just that, although it's his wife, played by Geraldine McEwan, who has the idea and he's the one who has reservations.
The dramatic tension, such as it is, comes in the form of Local Councillor/busybody Irene Handl who is intent on closing them down to make…
Gerald Thomas’s British comedy in which a couple inherit an estate and turn it into a summer camp for children. Starring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine Mcewan, Julia Lockwood, Noel Purcell and Irene Handl.
The story concerns a couple who change their congenital house into a summer property for penurious children and a vacation departure for rich ones.
Leslie Phillips and Geraldine Mcewan both give OK performances in their respective roles as David and Catherine Robinson, the couple involved, while Junge Jago, Joan Hickson and Irene Handl don’t offer much in their respective parts as the matron, cook and local councillor involved.
Noel Purcell and Julia Lockwood are both alright in their respective roles as Tandy and Fenella, the latter a young…
Esma Cannon steals the show in this - magnificently dotty and irritating to anyone unfortunate enough to cross her path. There was definitely room for more of her selectively deaf whirlwinds of lunacy.
Irene Handl does a decent job with what she is given, despite not having her beloved Pomeranian with her.
As a posh villain she was indignantly outrageous enough.
Pretty much sums up the film quite well - it’s ok, it’s enough, it’s amusing but nothing more.
