Raymond Huntley has problems. Not only has the Air Force commandeered the 13th green of his golf club, but his long-simmering relationship with American Barbara Kelly has reached the boiling point. While his children were young, they had maintained a discreet relationship. Now that they have grown up, the time has come for them to get married. However the children are still adamantly opposed to her.

Although all the performers do their best with their roles, this movie, based on a play by R.F. Delderfield has an essential problem: there's no real reason for the youngsters to object to Miss Kelly except for the demands of the plot. the result is that they are all at least slightly nasty, even as they are engaged in their own love affairs. One is carrying on with a married man, another has fallen for Corporal Ronald Howard, who doesn't earn enough money.... matters like that. Of course, it's all up to Miss Kelly to sort matters out, even as they protest at her interference.

It's Wolf Rilla's first movie as a director; he also wrote the screenplay, opening it up a bit from the play. He cannot, however, do much to deal with the rote issues and the stereotyped and unlikeable characters.

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