Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
Acting
Hylda Baker's timing could stop a train.
Writing
Play adaptation keeps its theatrical bite.
Director
Montgomery Tully
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Baker originated this role on stage in 1946 and played it over 1,500 times before finally filming it at age 55.
The film captures Lancashire working-class humour that mainstream British cinema largely ignored until the Kitchen Sink realism of the same year.
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