Please Turn Over – 1959 | 87 mins | Comedy | B&W

Plot Synopsis

Winsome suburban comedy adapted by Norman Hudis fromBasil Thomas’s stage hit Book of the Month, and played for laughs in aless-bawdy Carry On style. The cast of practised comics include Ted Ray, LesliePhillips, Joan Sims and Charles Hawtrey. Margaret Lockwood’s daughter Juliastars as the teenage novelist.

Jo Halliday (Julia Lockwood), the precocious 17-year-olddaughter of a respectable suburban family writes a successful and scandalous novelbased on people she knows called “Naked Revolt”. This causes much agitation inthe family circle as the townspeople believe the intimate secrets exposed in thescandal-sheet are true. Jo’s father, Edward (Ted Ray), is suddenly looked uponas an embezzler having an affair with his secretary. Her uncle (Lionel Jeffries),a driving instructor, is portrayed as an aging lothario. Her aunt (Joan Sims)is exposed as a drunk, and her doctor (Leslie Phillips), as a lustful seducerof his patients.