Wishing Well

1954

Action / Drama

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IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 53 53

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Plot summary

Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.


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Petula Clark as Delith
Patricia Cutts as Irene Jennings
Brenda de Banzie as Jane Price
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Reviewed by CinemaSerf 5 / 10

The Happiness of Three Women

The history surrounding this film is actually way more interesting that the film itself. It was written by Welsh bus driver Eynon Evans who plays the postman-cum-poet ("Amos") in this drama, and it was also the final film directed by veteran Maurice Elvey who had long since mastered the art of coping adequately with a low budget and little production time. This film centres around the pub of "Jane" (Brenda de Banzie) - upon whom our minstrel has quite a crush. It has a wishing well (from which the coins can be readily collected afterwards!) and the locals and visitors alike tend to use this as a means of fulfilling their dreams. The principle dreams being chased here feature "Delith" (Petula Clark) who is in love with fiancée "John" (Glyn Houston) but he is wheelchair-bound and suffers from issues of confidence about himself not being good enough for her. It also features a married couple whose love has long since left them and a rather large, curmudgeonly, lady for whom the glass is always half empty. Now the one thing I have always hated is a busybody, and "Amos" successfully portrays that character to the point that I would cheerfully have dumped him down his well, swiftly followed by the large lady and half a ton of instant concrete mix. His character is just annoying, and even the presence of the measured Miss de Banzie cannot really compensate for the irritation he causes. Indeed, this film really does play to just about every Welsh stereotype short of Miss Clark bursting into a rendition of "Land of my Fathers". That said, she does treat us to quite a nice little number and the London Welsh choir also get in on the action to remind us, if the beautiful photography of the valleys fails so to do, that we are in Wales. It's a curious film to watch, and when the ladies concerned are left to actually develop their stories, it is quite watchable. The whole, though, isn't quite the sum of the parts and I found myself more annoyed than engaged with this by the end.

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Reviewed by mark.waltz 4 / 10

The Postman Always sticks his nose in where it doesn't belong.

And he doesn't ring twice. In fact, he doesn't ring at all. He just shows up and tells you what's in your mail, and you're expected to just laugh it off. Eynon Evans lives at the Welsh Country Inn, the Wishing Well, romances proprietor Brenda de Banzie and make sure that everybody deposits a coin in the wishing well on the property, having a contraption at the bottom of the well that collects them so he can easily pull them out. Maybe this was funny in 1954, but he's insufferable as he sticks his nose in everyone's business and nobody tells him off. The group of travelers staying at the end during this particular incident includes a married couple who don't get along, a nurse who lost her husband and is still in mourning and an insufferable old woman who complains about everything. When she indicates that her room is so small that she won't be able to get out, I had to scream at her through my TV screen, well then you need to go on a diet.

The area in which they live is pretty but very quiet, so perhaps that's a motivation for his boredom to try to interfere in the romantic issues of everybody who checks in and out. When the unhappily married husband decides he's leaving and wants to pay the bill, Evans spends more time than he should trying to talk him out of it. In fact, he's sticking his nose so much into people's business that you have to wonder when does he find time to deliver the mail. Outside of the beautiful surroundings on the gorgeous mountain road, the only interesting thing about this film is a presence of a young Petula Clark. Other than that, I was truly bored.

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