Aug 5th   
Smashing Time*
(GB 1967)
Paramount/Partisan/Selmir. 96m.

Two Northern girls travel to London to experience the trendy highs and lows.
Swinging Sixties satire with only occasionally amusing sketches (including imitation Laurel and Hardy slapstick), but uneven in characterisation of its two leads and almost unwatchable nowadays, but a fair snapshot of the time.

Written by: George Melly.
Producers: Ray Millichip, Carlo Ponti.
Director: Desmond Davis.
Starring: Lynn Redgrave, Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Ian Carmichael, Anna Quayle, Jeremy Lloyd, Peter Jones, Arthur Mullard, David Lodge.
Photography: Manny Wynn.
Music: John Addison, Skip Bifferty.

+ among those in cameos include Paul Danquah and Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham's two co-stars in A Taste of Honey

Preceded by:
Ain't She Sweet?**
(US 1932. Paramount. 7m. bw; Enjoyable animated musical short with the additional filming of Lillian Roth performing the title number.; d: Dave Fleischer.)