30.1.13

sailor beware (1956)

aka Panic In The Parlor.
"You've got to do as I tell you."
Battle-axe Emma Hornett (Peggy Mount) dominates her family including daughter Shirley (Shirley Eaton), who is about to marry young sailor Albert (Ronald Lewis). Albert and his best man Carnoustie (Gordon Jackson) stay with the Hornetts following the stag night, and is put off the idea of married life as a consequence. Can the family bring Albert round to the idea of?
Hugely popular at the time, this typical mother-in-law comedy has paled with time. British, Comedy, Gordon Parry,

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