No Kidding (film)


No Kidding is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Gerald Thomas featuring Leslie Phillips, Geraldine McEwan and Irene Handl, Noel Purcell and Julia Lockwood. The film is adapted from Verily Andersons 1958 memoir Beware of Children, under which title the film was released in the US. Anderson also wrote the screenplay.

David Leslie Phillips and Catherine Robinson Geraldine McEwan move into a rundown country house. After a number of failed ventures, they are looking to build a solid business. They strike upon the idea of setting up a summer home for the children of the wealthy. They attract a number of customers, and hire a matron June Jago and a cook Joan Hickson, and immediately fall foul of a local councillor Irene Handl who does not believe they should be allowed to look after children.The families arrive and drop off their children. They range from polite, scared and helpful to wild, spoilt, rebellious children led by an American brother and sister, and an English fantasist girl Julia Lockwood, who tries to insist that she has been maltreated by her in fact kindly family. ........

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