Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953)Based on a 1944 West End stage success with Ralph Lynn, this is a classic bedroom farce for those who like them that way -- its theatrical origins acknowledged in the credits and clearly apparent when most of the action takes place with characters popping in and out of a single-room set -- enlivened by a sex-pot performance by Diana Dors as blackmailing first wife Candy.
Sid James plays the Commander's 'dumb buddy' with enthusiasm, although his accent does wander a little between American, South African and Cockney. David Tomlinson, who was a well-known stage actor at the time (and married to Audrey Freeman, who here plays the pert maid Lucy), produces a classic 'worm that turns' performance as the hapless Frank Betterton; Bonar Colleano is flashy and lively in the Ralph Lynn role of the embarrassed husband on his second honeymoon.
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