Traveller's Joy

One of the final nails in Gainsborough Films' coffin; eventually hammered home after spending two years on the shelf while the West End hit by Arthur Macrae completed it's run.

Presumably this gallumphing farce (with an annoyingly emphatic score by Arthur Wilkinson) owed it's popularity to it passing for sparkling sophistication in the drab context of postwar austerity Britain. But the appearance in blonde pigtails in the opening scene of Dora Bryan as a Norwegian maid called Eva gives you an idea of what to expect.