Our Girl Friday

Our Girl Friday (U.S. title The Adventures of Sadie) is a 1953 British comedy film starring Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More and Robertson Hare.

[2] A ship collision results in four survivors from an ocean liner winding up on a desert island: spoiled heiress Sadie, lecturer Professor Gibble, journalist Jimmy Carrol and ship's stoker Pat Plunket.

This causes conflict between Carrol and Gibble that results in Sadie wanting to move to the other side of the island to live alone.

The film was to be written and directed by Noel Langley and Robertson Hare was attached as a star.

[12] Although the film was released after Genevieve (1953), which made More a star, it performed disappointingly at the box office.

[10] Monthly Film Bulletin said "This is a humourless comedy whlch makes little of its situation.

The jokes are largely about Robertson Hare wearing a grass skirt and peeping at Sadie bathing in the sea.

The picture has quite an amusing shipboard opening in which Hermione Gingold, the guest artist, scores as a fluttering spinster, but its main action occurs on the island.

Robertson Hare contributes a characteristic study as the snooty Gibble, George Cole makes every line tell as Carrol, and Kenneth More registers as the exuberant Plunkett.

The play's early shafts, directed at social humbug, intellectual snobbery and modern civilisation, are aimed slightly too high, but once the humour descends to knockabout, laughs flow freely.

The story of amorous castaways competing for a single woman makes for a one-joke movie, although George Cole and Robertson Hare are amusing as the no-hopers tilting their caps at Joan Collins's very sexy Sadie.