No Kidding (film)

No Kidding (U.S. title: Beware of Children) is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas featuring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan and Irene Handl, Noel Purcell and Julia Lockwood.

David suggests they now have room to increase their family beyond their son, but, after a number of his previous business ventures have failed, his wife demurs.

The children arrive, and while some are polite, scared and helpful, others are wild, spoilt, and rebellious, including an American brother and sister, and an English girl who insists (falsely) that she has been maltreated by her parents.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A rag-bag of hackneyed situations thrown together with an almost demented lack of consequence, No Kidding shifts the basis of the Peter Rogers-Gerald Thomas brand of comedy from slapstick to sentiment, losing pace, construction and edge in the process.

A piquant Geraldine McEwan and a subdued Leslie Phillips do what they can to bolster up the more limp and feeble aspects of the plot, but the film remains little more than a calculated tug at the sloppiest of heart-strings.