Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary

Commander Vining (Bonar Colleano) is an American officer who was stationed in Britain during the war. He's now returning to the country with his brand new wife on a new assignment. As they are about to celebrate their first night as husband and wife, a snag occurs....the Commander's ex-wife (Diana Dors) arrives and announces that they are STILL married! Is this true? And, if so, what about his honeymoon? And, what if his new wife finds out about it?

This film suffers from one problem...it's actually a problem with an easy solution. All he needed to do was sit down with the first and second wife and talk about it rationally. But instead, the Commander and his his lawyer (David Tomlinson) act like goofballs and the film is jampacked full of slapstick and silliness. To a point, this was funny...but also quite contrived. Overall, very watchable but far from a great film.



By the way, Colleano specialized in playing Americans in British films...particularly brash ones. It seems he moved to the UK and was in high demand due to his genuine American accent. Sadly, he died at 34 after being involved in a traffic accident.