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Saturday, May 28, 2022

Our Girl Friday (aka Adventures Of Sadie) (1953)

A ship collision results in four survivors from an ocean liner landing on a desert island: a spoiled rich girl (Joan Collins), a journalist (George Cole), a professor (Robertson Hare) and the ship's stoker (Kenneth More). Based on the novel THE CAUTIOUS AMORIST by Norman Lindsay and directed by writer (THE WIZARD OF OZ) turned director Noel Langley. Handsomely shot on location on the Spanish island of Majorca by Wilkie Cooper (7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD), this is a typical "girl stranded on a desert island with men" scenario with the usual complications and conflicts, comedy division. It's not especially funny but the exotic island location and a tanned Joan Collins parading around in a bikini (reputedly the first bikini worn in an English language film) are minor consolations. Both Collins and Kenneth More would again find themselves stranded on desert islands four years later. Collins in SEA WIFE and More in THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON. With Hermione Gingold, Hattie Jacques and Felix Felton. 

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