Dreadfully Boring

A Masterpiece!

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Everybody deserves another chance. Newly released from prison, three women face the challenges of reformed life on the "outside". Each have their own plans for moving on with life. The youngest (played by a stunningly beautiful Joan Collins in her first leading film role) is determined to marry a sincere young man with whom she had kept in correspondence. The second one appears to have been innocently convicted due to a shifty boyfriend who left her to take the wrap for the crime he had committed. The third is a sweet little old lady who routinely got convicted of shop lifting. - The film follows all three women through their first day of freedom. Young Joan Collins is excited when her fiancé suggests a very near wedding date. The innocent one finds employment, and the old lady goes back to her modest boarding house where her beloved little dog "Johnnie" was waiting for her return. - Of course there are complication, lots of drama, and a heart breaking ending. The grim realities of early 1950s life in London make for a believable backdrop to the individual character studies. Life was tough, and for single women even tougher. Adding a prison record only adds to the challenge. - I was very much entertained by this film. A simple story told with warmth and empathy. Be sure to have your Kleenex box handy, it's a mushy one!

I awarded this film 7/10 and am sad that none of the heritage vintage film TV channels have not seen fit to transmit this superb b&w film.For someone like me born in 1946 the scenes of early 1950s London have a resonance as I can remember the old cars Britain used to manufacture like the "Riley", tube trains with air vents at the side, police officers with helmets standing on street corners and of course the prices of commodities pre-inflation.The users above have satisfactorily described the plot.Each of the gaol-birds are tempted upon their release to re-offend and part of the interest is seeing how they deal with temptation as it comes their way, whether to take up again with her criminal boyfriend (Yvonne Mitchell), whether to carry on being a Soho prostitute (Joan Collins) or hope to establish normal family relations and curtail her shoplifting habit (Kathleen Harrison).The most poignant scene for me was when Kathleen Harrison is run over and killed while her beloved dog "Johnie" then walks the streets alone and owner-less.Yvonne Mitchell her gaol-bird colleague then becomes "Johnie's" new owner after her worthless ex-boyfriend (Terence Morgan) gets his just deserts.This was a well produced and directed film which should be seen more often on t.v.Do today's film t.v.channels think it would not attract remunerative advertising revenue to air gems like this?I am obviously not in the target socio-economic advertising group at 69 years of age!

This was one of a number of films made at this time arising out of shared experiences of institutions.There were films about Borstal s,Prisons,schools,department stores and police station.In this film we follow the lives of 3 ex women prisoners on the day of their release.The main story is that of Yvonne Mitchell and Terrance Morgan,then there is Joan Collins and finally Kathleen Harrison.The first story is far and away the best and supplies the main climax to the film.Mitchell wants to go straight but is inveigled into a robbery by Morgan.She manages to escape and leave him to his fate.Collins is a good time girl who is enticed into her old ways,probably prostitution,by her old friends.She is going to marry a bus conductor would you believe.Her acting is absolutely awful,and her attempt to speak with a cockney accent is laughable.Can anyone believe a Joan Collins character happily married to a bus conductor.the third story concerns the reliable Kathleen Harrison and her dog Johnny.This is a real shaggy dog story and really the worst of the bunch and which leads to a very contrived finale. The most interesting part of this film is the location work and to be reminded of the way London was in the 50s.Incidentally Collins is shown outside the Leicester Square Theatre,now the Odeon West End.On Tuesday the vandals at Westminster agreed to its demolition so that yet another hotel could be built there.Shame on them.

The full gamut of life in the london of the fifties. Humor and pathos in that delicate british mix that the studios of the day excelled at. The characters are well portrayed particully that played by Kathleen Harrison. A simple tale of three women - released on the same day and time from prison - of vastly different backgrounds, the film basicly revoloves around a dinner engagment proposed and payed for by Yvonne Mitchel. The events prior and post this dinner comprise the body of the film