Whereas most pictures from this era take us to crime-ridden streets or theatres of America in the Depression or maybe to romantic palaces or eerie castles, this gives us a fabulous insight into real 1930s English rural life. What an amazingly different world to anything we know now the rural village was back then.
Production standards are high with this. Director Sinclair Hill makes every frame count, giving it just the right pace to engage us, making this silly story somehow believable. He and his cameraman do full justice to the lush and lovely English countryside with some great fluid cinematography, mainly on location which was quite unusual at the time. He captures a real authentic taste and texture of this quaint little village (actually it's just outside Arundel in Sussex) - it looks idyllic.
As silly as the story is, it's great fun. It's a proper rom-com which ticks all the right boxes making this just as enjoyable as anything made these days. All the cast are spot on especially Frederick Kerr. He would die shortly after making this and his hilarious performance serves as a fitting tribute to him.
The real star and the reason to watch this is of course the divine, utterly adorable Jessie Matthews, the prettiest woman that humankind has ever produced. She is effortlessly alluring and makes her character absolutely alive.
Spending most of the film pretending to be a maid and not performing any musical numbers, we're not privileged to any exotic or erotic costumes such as the ones she graced us with in the fabulous IT'S LOVE AGAIN but she still looks jaw-droppingly sexy even in overalls. Being made in the 30s there's the obligatory scenes wearing a saucy negligee and in that respect, she certainly gives Joan Blondell a run for her money!
Overall this isn't particularly outstanding but is thoroughly fun and is guaranteed to make you fall in love with Jessie Matthews.
