Avco Embassy Pictures
Directed by Desmond Davis
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(VHS, Magnetic Video Corporation)
Barbara Ferris returns home from boarding school when her father dies. She inherits his house, but her elderly aunts don't want her living alone. She heads off to Paris to get away from them and promptly gets pregnant by an immature French artist. She returns home to have the baby, living with her father's housekeeper Harry Andrews. He gradually becomes a father figure to her and helps raise the baby. Soon bored, she trounces off to Venice, and another romp leads to another pregnancy. Not only that, she is given a baby by a poor Italian woman through the train window while leaving the station! The dismayed Andrews now has his hands full, and she briefly considers marrying an uptight diplomat just to help with her growing family. She breaks it off when she realizes she doesn't love him and that Andrews was the man for her after all. Desmond Davis cut his teeth as a cameraman on classic kitchen sink dramas such as A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and even Tom Jones. This is an extension of that work, albeit not so gritty, with lush photography by Gil Taylor a real joy to watch.
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