Ladies Who Do

After accidentally acquiring details of a corporate purchase, cleaner Mount and her friends, including finance whizz Morley, decide to set up a company to use this and other information to make stocks and shares trade killings.

Sweet, simple and very British, this is fun enough with Mount wonderful as the world's grumpiest bag with a heart of gold supported by an impressive array of British character actors.

Mrs. Cragg, a cleaning lady, inadvertently picks up some inside trading information that could earn a fortune. The idea to repeat the action spawns a company; 'Ladezudu.'

A nice comedy of working class makes good. Some good gags and excellent physical humour. In the end when the rags have made their riches they become the ones wanting to exploit the poor.

If you want to know what 1960s working class looked like this is a good start.

I liked Mrs Parish.

My mother took me to see this at the cinema and I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed today when it was on the Talking Pictures channel. The premise was pinched recently for the Sheridan Smith series 'Cleaning Up' although not a comedy like this one. It's a typical 60's B&W comedy that could sit alongside the Carry On films with a wealth of British comedy talent of the day led by Robert Morley and Peggy Mount with Harry H Corbett as the villain of the piece.

I really disliked Peggy Mount when she was Ada Larkin in 'The Larkins' she was so horrible to David Kossoff, as a 6 year old at the time I didn't understand she was acting. So one day on holiday on the Norfolk broads she was having lunch with Pat Combs in the hotel we were staying in. My father said go in and ask her for an autograph so I went up and said 'Please Lady Mount, can I have your autograph?' she was so sweet and obliged, I then went back and gave her mine, she laughed saying it was the first time anyone had given on back.

Lovely lady, lovely film.

Quality comedy from 1963. Even all these years later it's still wonderfully funny, and gloriously sentimental. All of the actors play to their strengths, Peggy Mount is the domineerinf, brash lead, Miriam Karlin is the shop steward, Harry H. Corbett is the rags to riches businessman, and Robert Morley is the bumbling Colonel.

A story that would have been very relevant at the time, many houses were pulled down, with people forced to move out. Plenty of laughs throughout, with such a cast as this, it was never going to fail was it. 9/10

I saw this delightful movie in the late 60's. I do wish that the film industry in other countries, including the United States, could follow the English guidelines in creating a truly funny film. One of the many things that made this movie so funny and outstanding was the lack of four letter words and bedroom scenes. The producer and director of "Women Who Do" proved that four char ladies and their co-hart who play the stock market can create a delightful plot. Even though it has been so many years ago, when they took over the board room I had tears rolling down my face from laughing so hard. What do fans of English comedy,like this, do to get to see more movies like this? Or, what do we do to get to see this movie again? I truly loved every minute of this movie. Bettye Coleman