Our Girl Friday

Joan Collins - Sadie Patch
George Cole - Jimmy Carrol
Kenneth More - Pat Plunkett
Robertson Hare - Professor Gibble
Hermione Gingold - Spinster
Walter Fitzgerald - Captain
Hattie Jacques - Mrs. Patch

Flimsy comedy with a paper-thin plot and few chuckles from Norman Lindsay's novel The Cautious Amorist. The difficulty is a lack of chemistry between the four disparate stars and a great deal of flat dialogue from South African writer/director Noel Langley’s screenplay. Filmed in England and Mallorca, Spain, Our Girl Friday was the first British picture shot in washed-out Eastmancolour.

After a fog-bound collision at sea, four shipwrecked cruise survivors are marooned on a desert island – millionaire’s daughter Sadie Patch (Joan Collins), cynical journalist Jimmy Carrol (George Cole), old-fashioned economics lecturer Professor Gibble (Robertson Hare) and the ships stoker Pat Plunkett (Kenneth More). The three men reach agreement that none shall become romantically involved with their lone female companion; but Jimmy and the Professor endeavour to woo her in vain; Sadie only has eyes for Pat the hard-drinking Irishman but her affection isn’t reciprocated. After they are eventually rescued by a passing ship, Sadie wishes to marry Pat but he refuses. After another shipwreck Sadie is washed up back on the same island, and to her delight so is Pat!