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She Didn't Say No

  • 1958
  • 1h 37m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
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Anne Dickins, Wilfred Downing, Eileen Herlie, Raymond Manthorpe, Perlita Neilson, Lesley Scoble, and Teri Scoble in She Didn't Say No (1958)
ComedyDrama

Bridget Monaghan, a dressmaker and mother of six illegitimate children, tries to maintain her current lifestyle while the fathers of her six children try to run her out of their small Irish ... Read allBridget Monaghan, a dressmaker and mother of six illegitimate children, tries to maintain her current lifestyle while the fathers of her six children try to run her out of their small Irish town and her children seek to gain lives of their own--and the lonely Bridget seeks a roma... Read allBridget Monaghan, a dressmaker and mother of six illegitimate children, tries to maintain her current lifestyle while the fathers of her six children try to run her out of their small Irish town and her children seek to gain lives of their own--and the lonely Bridget seeks a romance for herself.

  • Director
    • Cyril Frankel
  • Writers
    • Una Troy
    • T.J. Morrison
  • Stars
    • Eileen Herlie
    • Perlita Neilson
    • Wilfred Downing
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    61
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Cyril Frankel
    • Writers
      • Una Troy
      • T.J. Morrison
    • Stars
      • Eileen Herlie
      • Perlita Neilson
      • Wilfred Downing
    • 2User reviews
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    Eileen Herlie
    Eileen Herlie
    • Bridget Monaghan
    Perlita Neilson
    • Mary Monaghan
    Wilfred Downing
    Wilfred Downing
    • Tommy Monaghan
    Anne Dickins
    • Poppy Monaghan
    • (as Ann Dickins)
    Teri Scoble
    • Twin #2
    Lesley Scoble
    • Twin #1
    Raymond Manthorpe
    • Toughy Monaghan
    Niall MacGinnis
    Niall MacGinnis
    • James Casey
    Patrick McAlinney
    Patrick McAlinney
    • Matthew Hogan
    Jack MacGowran
    Jack MacGowran
    • William Bates
    Joan O'Hara
    • Mrs. Bates
    Ray McAnally
    Ray McAnally
    • Jim Power
    Betty McDowall
    Betty McDowall
    • Mrs. Power
    Ian Bannen
    Ian Bannen
    • Peter Howard
    Eithne Dunne
    • Miss Hogan
    Hilton Edwards
    Hilton Edwards
    • Film Director
    Maureen Halligan
    • Miss Kelly
    Harry Hutchinson
    • Judge
    • Director
      • Cyril Frankel
    • Writers
      • Una Troy
      • T.J. Morrison
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    6pmacmellow

    Wry humour, picture postcard setting and an old 'Ireland'

    SHE DIDN'T SAY NO While Irish actors continue to operate at the highest level in Hollywood and our film-makers, young and old, do us proud at home and abroad, a blast from the past has recently resurfaced to show off 'another' Eire.

    A newly restored print of the 1958 film, She Didn't Say No, originally banned for being immoral, takes pride of place in an exhibition at the prestigious New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) from May 26 to June 17.

    Newly restored to its former glory, it's a Technicolour-shot tale of Bridget Moynihan (played by Eileen Herlie) who has six children, all with different fathers, in Doon, Co Waterford.

    The otherwise saintly seamstress is the sole source of scandal in the village and various attempts are made to 'punish' her for her un-Catholic affairs and to remove her from the village.

    These serious issues are lightened up by the visit of a film crew to Doon to show the green glory of the Emerald Isle (though the film was shot in Cornwall).

    Instead of piling on the Begorrahs it's the film industry which is made a fool of and satirised as Bridget's eldest daughter, Poppy (Ann Dicken) wangles the plum role in the production.

    Looking back nearly fifty years, She Didn't Say No is both hilarious and affecting despite its numerous and untidy plot lines, with strong performances from Ray McAnally, Hilton Edwards, Ian Bannen and Jack McGowran.
    9EdgarST

    Good movie by Cyril Frankel

    In the small Irish Catholic village of Doon, the shopkeeper's wife gives birth to twins, revealing to the quick-witted and the gossip that it was the shopkeeper who impregnated the village seamstress, who has two twin girls and four more children by five different men, one of whom died in World War II. The shopkeeper tries to get her removed from the village or her children taken away, as she considers her an immoral woman.

    When I sat down to view the conditions of a copy, I liked it so much that I ended up watching it all. I was touched by its ease. A 1958 film that spoke frankly about a single mother with multiple children from different fathers in a humorous tone and without condemning her? I later read that the film was banned in several cities, probably by one of the "leagues of decency " that Christian churches used to organize in the 20th century.

    In 2001, the Irish Film Archive re-released the film shot in Technicolor, almost 50 years after it was made. Based on Una Troy's novel «We Are Seven,» it was directed by Cyril Frankel, a filmmaker who made two notable films for Hammer Film: «Never Take Sweets from a Stranger», a drama about pedophilia, with a rich old satyr who is one of the most fearsome "monsters" in the history of cinema; and Joan Fontaine's last film, «The Witches,» a folk horror drama about Satanist agrarian rites.

    Frankel made movies and television for 40 years. Early in his career he made an ethnographic film called «Man from Africa» (1953), about the migration of the Bagika people in the territory of Uganda, at low cost and with a crew of seven people. When he went from documentary to dramatization, Frankel used the people of the tribe and achieved a natural portrait, far from the mocking stereotypes that were made of blacks at that time. The film was restored and shown in 2011 with the presence of Frankel, who was 90 years old and showed his erudition in the subsequent dialogue with the public. This work is very well evaluated and is perhaps his best film.

    In «She Didn't Say No,» in a different tone and in a less wild environment, Frankel shows his affection in the good handling of the material, adapted by Troy, a novelist and also a playwright. It is a story told in several voices and the seamstress, her six children, their living parents, the wives of those men, plus the doctor, the sergeant, the teacher and the town judge receive equal treatment and screen time. Scottish actress Eileen Herlie (who played Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, in Laurence Olivier's classic 1944 film version) is the dressmaker at the center of the story here, and shines in her scenes for her sensitivity and restraint.

    If there's one thing that can be criticized about the film, it could be that it is hyper-optimistic, with not one, but two or three happy endings. But who can dislike a 1950s story that cleverly and good-naturedly takes on its most dramatic details (such as the seamstress's abuse by four men in her search for a surrogate father for her eldest daughter)? The script by Troy and T. J. Morrison links all the stories together very well and leads us to a happy resolution. Highly recommended.

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      • June 1, 2022 (France)
    • Countries of origin
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