Two Left Feet

Roy Baker's final film before he added 'Ward' to his name following a mid-sixties sojourn in tv was this bittersweet comedy-drama that was one of the casualties of the distribution crisis that famously hit the British film industry in 1963.

A project the director had approached with considerable enthusiasm (reflected in his memoirs by his fond recollection of his fresh young cast of whom Julia Foster is by far the most appealing) and slightly ahead of its time in its exploration of the theme of youthful sexual experimentation that later hit the spot with Dick Lester's 'The Knack' (also starring Michael Crawford as a sexual novice but fortunately without the later film's leering misogyny).

Although today it all seems rather innocent, at the time it actually carried an 'X' certificate, which severely compromised its commercial prospects; and was probably one of the reasons it took two years to hit cinemas.