The World Ten Times Over (US title Pussycat Alley) is a 1963 British drama film written and directed by Wolf Rilla, and starring Sylvia Syms, June Ritchie, Edward Judd and William Hartnell.
The low point of the film is perhaps the climactic night-club sequence, tastelessly conceived and crudely executed, during which the old 'warm-hearted tart' cliché is turned inside out, to unpleasant and implausible effect.
The players, handicapped by some inapposite casting, cope as best they severally can with the unmemorable dialogue, but even William Hartnell (made up to look unnervingly like Lord Attlee in his Prime Ministerial days) is unusually ineffective, Sarah Lawson's brief but telling appearance, and Larry Pizer's polished photography, in fact, are the consolations of this further monument to Elstree's evident aspirations towards emulating the 'Free French'.
Nightclub and location sequences in London have a brisk authenticity," the reviewer went on to praise Sylvia Syms' performance, "Her scenes with her father (William Hartnell) are excellent.
Edward Judd seems strangely uneasy in his role and Ritchie, despite many firstrate moments, sometimes appears as if she is simply jumping through paper hoops.