For the Love of Ada is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Ronnie Baxter and starring Irene Handl, Wilfred Pickles, Barbara Mitchell and Jack Smethurst.

The answer provided by the film, of course, as Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles demonstrate how very nice, how indomitably life-loving, how British and human and working-class they are, is nothing whatsoever.

Adapted from the TV comedy series, For the Love of Ada is a boneless jelly of a film, setting up pointless little heartbreaks and conflicts so that it can dissolve them in a flood of cosy sentimentality.

Absolutely nothing happens from beginning to end, but every cliché in the book is given a whirl, from the wife who thinks her anniversary has been forgotten, to the husband who draws back in panic when his slobbering efforts at flirtation seem likely to bear fruit, right down to the climactic 'Knees Up Mother Brown'.

Like Pavlov's dogs, the characters shed tears or grin and bear it to appropriate stimuli, but life in this ghastly, thoroughly patronising concoction is reduced to a conditioned reflex.