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wrote: "Jimmy Edwards and David Tomlinson should have been ideally cast in Jerome's delightful comedy. Unfortunately, the curious adaptation and clumsy handling have effectively destroyed most of the charm and humour of the original book. The slapstick is crude and uninventive."
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George meets three girls, Sophie Clutterbuck and sisters Bluebell and Primrose Porterhouse, who are also taking a ride up the river, and he hopes to see them again. The travellers get into various complications with the weather, the river, the boat, food, the
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gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: "The ensemble, including David Tomlinson, is amiability itself, while the parasol-toting girls are as radiant as the golden days of yesteryear."
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rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Colourful comedy lacks Jerome's original humour ā€“ just isn't funny."
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said: "Flabby burlesque of a celebrated comic novel whose style is never even approached."
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The film was the 12th most popular movie at the British box office in 1957.
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the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957.
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Billings, Josh (12 December 1957). "Others in the money".
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LINDSAY ANDERSON, and DAVID DENT. "Time For New Ideas."
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Ken Annakin
Hubert Gregg
Vernon Harris
Jerome K. Jerome
John Woolf
Jack Clayton
Laurence Harvey
Jimmy Edwards
David Tomlinson
Shirley Eaton
Eric Cross
Ralph Kemplen
John Addison
Romulus Films
CinemaScope
comedy film
Ken Annakin
Laurence Harvey
Jimmy Edwards
David Tomlinson
Shirley Eaton
Hubert Gregg
Vernon Harris
novel of the same name
Jerome K. Jerome
Edwardian era
River Thames
Oxford
Hampton Court Maze

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