A Girl in a Million

Research scientist Hugh Williams has just gone through a nasty divorce and has buried himself in his masculine research lab with Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne -- playing Caldecott & Chalmers under different names -- when in pops orphaned Joan Greenwood. Although he inveigles against the female of the species, Williams falls in love with the mute beauty. They get married and all is perfect, except that Williams wishes his wife could speak. Then she does and the point of the movie comes through.

This effort by Sidney and Muriel Box starts out in a manner that looks completely ordinary, eked out with with the starring character actors to bring in the audience, but takes an abrupt turn and has some pointed comments to make on the battle of the sexes. Take a look at the conductor during the scene at the orchestra. That's Muir Matheson, who seems to have conducted every British movie score for a quarter of a century.