BASED on Noel Langley’s play Little Lambs Eat Ivy (a title inspired by Milton Drake’s 1943 novelty hit), Father’s Doing Fine (U) stars the late Richard Attenborough as a frantic father-to-be and Heather Thatcher (Gaslight, Man Hunt) as a straitened matriarch Lady Buckering. Father’s Doing Fine will be available to own on DVD from 10 November 2014, RRP £9.99, courtesy of Network’s ‘The British Film’ collection.
This good-natured domestic comedy hilariously charts the adventures of an impoverished upper-class family consisting of a widowed mother and her four daughters. The love affairs of the two unmarried daughters, some worthless shares, a thieving butler, the unpaid rent, the matrimonial difficulties of a third daughter and the imminent motherhood of the eldest are just some of the things that have to be dealt with over the course of a single day! The trailer is above.
