The Feminine Touch

One of the last films to be shot at Ealing before moving in Charles Barr's words to "a corner of the MGM studios at Elstree"; although George Baker is top-billed the film is very much about the women.

John Davis took some persuading to make it, and was presumably responsible for the decision to make it in Technicolor; which shows up Adrienne Corri's titian mane a treat, although Belinda Lee quickly assumes centre stage cast against type as a caring sister of mercy.

Memorable in supporting roles are Diana Wynyard as The Matron (whose role basically consists of three speeches; one of which actually contains the word 'colostomy'), Mandy Miller (still billed only as 'Mandy') in colour and with the power of speech, declaring God "a bully, He's cruel and beastly!", and Dorothy Alison as The Suicide.