“I thought you could get pregnant while by walking along a canal path while someone on the other side played the harmonica!” Rita Tushingham aside the dream partnership in this film is undoubtedly Dora Bryan and Peter ‘voice of the book’ Jones though Robert ‘Abner? That’s a foreign name isn’t it?’ Stephens is tremendously good too. But it’s Dora and Pete’s show all the way we’d say – though on reflection, and quite surprisingly, they don’t have much screen time together – making them, along with Richard Dreyfus and Terri Garr, one of film’s great couples.
