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...bite out of life and looks like he's swallowing a rotten cucumber. But his brother (Murray Head) is a winner. He's the kind who eats experience up, swallows it with delight, licks his lips, and looks up smiling. It's hard to see why scriptwriter Bill Naughton didn't make the happy ending Miss Mills running away with her husband's brother instead of Miss Mills making love to her husband. But Mr. Naughton, like so many others, insists that cerebral guy is great (you know he's cerebral because he reads at the breakfast table and plays...
From the raw material of this domestic calamity, the producer-director team of John and Roy Boulting have managed to make a situation comedy of piquant delicacy. The camera, like a sensitive visitor, never overstays its welcome when the newlyweds are together. The script, by Bill Naughton (Alfie), has a hundred opportunities to snigger but passes them all by with a warm smile. Moreover, The Family Way often evokes the serious undertones of a D. H. Lawrence story, as it explores the couple's life and the sexual attitudes that lie beneath their parents' working-class platitudes...
...GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate marital problem and problem parents to boot. Naughton has some funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with polished expertise...
...GOOD TIME. Without resorting to soap-operatic mush or clinical psychologizing, Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate problem and problem parents. Naughton has some very funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with high talent and polished expertise...
...Broadway ALL IN GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inabili ty of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. There are no clinical freaks to be found here-just blessedly real people...