Nicholas Courtney

After collecting a cache of diamonds as a deposit on their scientific formula, two scientists convince their government that the experiment was a failure, planning to keep the gems for themselves. But before they can sell the real formula to the highest bidder for even more cash, two bumbling crooks steal their diamonds, their formula and their identities.

Hayley Mills plays a young school teacher who lives in a London suburb and is intent on staying virginal until her wedding day. Oliver Reed and Noel Harrison try to tempt her away from her virtuous path in this charming, romantic comedy.

After collecting a cache of diamonds as a deposit on their scientific formula,twoscientists convince their government that the experiment was a failure, planning to keep the gems for themselves. But before they can sell the real formula to the highest bidder for even more cash, two bumbling crooks steal their diamonds, their formula and their identities.

Based on a novel by Kingsley Amis, this film follows the London arrival of Jenny Bunn (Hayley Mills, The Parent Trap), an attractive young teacher from the country with provincial ideas about love and marriage. She lodges with Dick and Martha (John Bird and Sheila Hancock), a married couple at odds with one another. Jenny quickly meets Patrick (Oliver Reed, Oliver!), who is determined to bed her despite her ideas about premarital sex. In offering Jenny his ?advice? on contemporary men and morals, Patrick's good friend Julian (Noel Harrison, The Best of Enemies) isn?t above trying to seduce her himself. How will Jenny adjust to the amorous attentions of so many willing men? Newly remastered.