Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Elizabeth Crowley I remember watching this first time round in 1993 (when I was 14) and really enjoying it. I have recently watching it again - currently free on 4 on demand - and probably liked it even more. The mini series is set during the Suez Crisis and is wonderfully surreal and amusing - the scenes in the war office when they all burst into song and particularly good (and a brilliant song track from the period). Definitely one to watch if you have not done so I highly recommend it - much better than Cold Lazarus - which I also watched first time round when it was on TV - but after revisiting this I think I may have to give it another shot

Peter Hayes A couple of foreign office clerks are very bored at work and their attention wanders.The 1950's never look like much fun to me. Give me a time tunnel and the 50's wouldn't be the first number I dial up.With a modest budget and a bit of nerve this series looks back with nostalgia on this buttoned up decade. Where a bit of peroxide and hint of stocking sent the boys wild -- I bit like today now that I think about it! This is fun and I love the way McGregor plays the virgin office boy. Not that he wasn't a bit younger back then.A fun bit of TV fluff although like most of Potter's work it goes on too long.

inframan Like all of Dennis Potter's work, this shows us what film could & should be. It wakens all the old dormant brain cells. Yes, imagination & inspiration do still live & are still the main ingredients of REAL ART!!! Not necessarily compatible with democracy, tho, maybe, who knows?

crudram A tale of youthful lust, against a backdrop of the Suez crisis and national service. Interspersed with some great music of the era, which, for some reason the cast just start singing along to. Seems silly, and it is, but it works, and adds the right touch to the storyline, reflecting all those times when you wish life was a musical.