Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

ianlouisiana Mike Sarne?Didn't he "direct" "Myra Breckinridge"?Yes by golly he did The boy done good then...I suppose. Although I'm not sure what he did afterwards except nearly bankrupt the studio. Actor,pop star,here was a young man for his time although both his vocal and thespic skills may have been open to question by some less - than - kind commentators. In "A place to go" he plays a disaffected youth (what else?) who attempts to turn to crime but doesn't have the bottle. An embarrassed - looking Bernard Lee plays Cockney Rebel Dad who does an excruciatingly incompetent escapologist's act(reminds me of one I saw "entertaining" the crowds waiting for Winston Churchill's funeral cortege to pass Tower Hill a couple of years later - I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't the same geezer). Mum is Doris Hare who isn't the slightest bit embarrassed but should have been. Rita Tushingham is not convincing as a cockney sparrer - Princess Margaret could have done a better job. It would like to have been "It always rains on Sundays" with its dour but somehow rivetting look at working - class life in Bethnal Green but it lacks almost everything except John Slater. It's patronising,opportunistic and cliched. Just like "Eastenders" then. And just about as realistic.

writers_reign In the immortal words of Syd Field, What A Performance, and that's only Mike, Come Outside, Sarne, what a pity he didn't take himself outside before filming started, but fair dos, you could say the same about virtually anyone involved. Doris Hare? You've got to be kidding. On The Buses was just about her mark and even that dire piece of cheese makes this look like Citizen Kane. As someone remarked on this site Rita Tushingham is the best actress here by a country mile but Rita Tushingham as a cockney sparrer, do me a favour. Bernard Lee, poster boy for the Temperance Society, Doris Hare, and Mike Sarne in the same family? Who was the Casting Director, Mr. Bean? Do yourself a favour and give this one a miss.

davidcorne245 After reading the first review of this film I was tempted to say that the reviewer should have gone to Specsavers. Talking about 'the lovely Rita Tushingham' made me think this. She may have been a good actress, but lovely she certainly wasn't. Mike Sarne used this film as a vehicle to prove that not only he couldn't sing, but couldn't act either. The one saving grace for me as someone who worked in Bethnal Green around this time the film was made was the jogging of my memory of streets, neighbourhood and people long gone. The sight of Doris Hare belittling Bernard Lee at the family meal table was as embarrassing as the bedroom clinch they later shared. The scene where Lee sets light to the Christmas decorations is just laughable and how Sarne and Tushingham spent time canoodling in a derelict bombed out building probably running alive with rats was as ridiculous as casting John Slater as the local gangster. Like Lee who played an escapologist (not a very good one at that)who struggled to free himself of the chains he was bound by, I couldn't get out of the cinema quick enough!

sould Some excellent and vivid location work around Bethnal Green in London is the setting for this slice of "kitchen sink" life.It portrays a family struggling to keep their heads above the water as the man of the house Bernard Lee loses his job for being too mouthy at work, he then takes to the streets as an escapologist in order to get money for food on the table, quite often embarrassing himself and his family in the process. Meanwhile his son played by 60ts singing star Mike Sarne is fed up being on the breadline and turns to local gangster John Slater to do a robbery at the factory he works at, it goes wrong but he manages to get out of it in a hurry, meanwhile Sarne's love interest played by the lovely Rita Tushingham certainly is'nt an easy catch. All in all a really good slab of realism directed by the excellent Basil Dearden. Recommended.