“I get over things fast. Especially people and other diseases.”

Hehe, this is one that really needs your patience. After about 10 minutes here I was kinda wishing I’d watched this and The Trouble With Angels the other way around since this felt immeasurably inferior and of course I’d prefer to go to bed on the better movie. Hayley Mills starts the movie with a pretty dodgy American accent and it’s nowhere near as forgivable as her Northern accent in Whistle Down the Wind; John Mills as her father is almost unrecognisable (to me at least), and though his accent is equally dodgy, it’s really Hayley that stands out in the worst way. The movie keeps your attention at this stage with appearances by actors such as David Tomlinson and Lionel Jeffries, so it’s not all bad.

Suddenly, though, the movie really changes gear. It’s when she’s stranded with hunky Ashton that Mills really lights up, and line after quotable line comes out of the screenplay (“That’s not all there is to being a girl!” “Well it’s enough to turn me against it! I’m me, Ashton, that’s all I ever intend to be, so don’t expect anything else. G’night.”). She practically ditches the accent attempt entirely by midway and from thereon it is 100% a Hayley Mills movie and as such completely irresistable. It’s definitely one of those movies it’s kind of baffling hasn’t yet received a DVD release.

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