I Can't (also known as Wedding Night), is a 1970 British-Irish film directed by Piers Haggard and starring Dennis Waterman, Tessa Wyatt, Alexandra Bastedo and Eddie Byrne.

But the direction is also unvaryingly flat and invests Mady's alternating refusals and flashbacks with more tedium than insight, while the scriptwriters seem to hesitate between stressing the hopelessness of her situation and opting for a conventionally pat solution.

In one of the film's most dramatic moments, as Mady is driven to soothe a screaming baby to sleep, it looks as if motherly instinct is about to catapult her into Joe's bed; and the actual conclusion, with its excess of Love Story sentimentality, proves to be almost as unsatisfactory.

That Wedding Night manages to attain until this point a measure of plausibility is due largely to a thoughtful, sympathetic performance from Tessa Wyatt, who ably conveys the terror which even the most nobly intended words of comfort ("You're cold.

A Miss Wyatt, a young TV and legit thesp, making her cinema bow, admits that she found some of the delicate scenes embarrassing to act, but she acquits herself well and, with more experience, could nave a future in British pix.