Wealthy businessman and single parent Sir Michael Carr does not know how to deal with his daughter Tansy, at that awkward age between teenager and adult.

It was Michael Craig's fourth film with Box and Thomas and he said it "wasn't really bad" with Juliet Mills being "very good indeed" and Redgrave and Livesey giving "the proceedings a touch of class."

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "It is painful to see how unfunny even a good cast can be when given a script so lacking in wit and so full of jokes and characters familiar from decades of matinées.

Slippery mats, lift doors shutting too fast, and Lido programmes brought back from a business journey to Paris are only too typical of the level of comic invention.

The youngsters, Rad Fulton and the lively Juliet Mills, maintain some dignity, but their love is too innocent to be credible and the general atmosphere so insistently clean-limbed as to be faintly unwholesome.