Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

(UK)

Giant/United Artists. Dir Clive Donner; Producer Clive Donner; Screenplay Hunter Davies, Larry Kramer; Camera Alex Thomson; Editor Fergus McDonell; Music Simon Napier-Bell (arr.) Art Dir Brian Eatwell

Barry Evans
Judy Geeson
Angela Scoular
Sheila White
Adrienne Posta
Denholm Elliott

A lightfooted look at the teenagers with engaging performances from hitherto largely unknown youngsters, the film was made entirely on location in a new town near London. It has a nimble alertness to juve characteristics and a nice flair for comedy.

Story is based on a successful novel by journalist Hunter Davies. Its strength is the wit of characterization and it's pleasantly salted with lines about young sexual ambitions.

The hero is a final-year student at high school, absorbed with stalking gals but finding the hunt leaves him too often up a cul-de-sac.

Barry Evans wins both sympathy and laughs as the boy. Story is spliced with Mitty-type dream bits, which give additional bite to the gap between ideal and reality.

The girls are well chosen, with Angela Scoular scoring with fine comic precision as the uppercrust girl, Judy Geeson purveying easy charm as the final near-conquest, and Adrienne Posta and Sheila White making the most of their chances.

(Color) Extract of a review from 1968. Running time: 94 MIN.

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