The Crowning Touch is a 1959 British comedy film directed by David Eady and starring Ted Ray, Irene Handl and Greta Gynt.

Three of the shop's staff offer different reasons as to why the pretty young girl who'd ordered the hat never showed up.

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This quartet of magazine stories is smoothly linked by a generally amusing and entertaining script, while the production's acting and technical qualities are passably good.

"[2] Allmovie called the film "a serviceable British shaggy-dog story, graced by the presence of such top talents as Greta Gynt, Griffith Jones, Sydney Tafler, Dermot Walsh and Irene Handl.

"[4] TV Guide called it an "okay English comedy ... A number of distinguished performers lift this one above the average.