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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 245729" data-attributes="member: 33">Run For You Wife (2012)<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOWYzM2RmZDktZjdiMS00YjkwLTkyODgtYjUxNzljYTE5YmY2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 431px" />I saw the West End theatre production of this play in the 1980s and enjoyed it very much so when I heard they were adapting it for a film I looked forward to seeing it. However, it was a mega flop and never really got much of a cinematic release so I never got to see it until last weekend when someone gave me a copy.The film is a comedy about a bigamist and his attempts to hide his wives from each other. It&#039;s also a who&#039;s who of British entertainment with most of the supporting roles and many of the background artists played by well know figures including Cliff Richard, June Whitfield, Richard Briars, Bernard Cribbins, Barry Cryer, Judy Dench, Russ Abbott, Sylvia Syms, Donald Sinden and many others.The film lacks the frantic panic of the stage play where characters miss each other by seconds between one door opening and another shutting and without that it&#039;s just a weak far-fetched story with very few laughs. The only interesting thing about the film was identifying the famous faces in the background.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 245729, member: 33"] Run For You Wife (2012) [IMG width="431px"]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOWYzM2RmZDktZjdiMS00YjkwLTkyODgtYjUxNzljYTE5YmY2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg[/IMG] I saw the West End theatre production of this play in the 1980s and enjoyed it very much so when I heard they were adapting it for a film I looked forward to seeing it. However, it was a mega flop and never really got much of a cinematic release so I never got to see it until last weekend when someone gave me a copy. The film is a comedy about a bigamist and his attempts to hide his wives from each other. It's also a who's who of British entertainment with most of the supporting roles and many of the background artists played by well know figures including Cliff Richard, June Whitfield, Richard Briars, Bernard Cribbins, Barry Cryer, Judy Dench, Russ Abbott, Sylvia Syms, Donald Sinden and many others. The film lacks the frantic panic of the stage play where characters miss each other by seconds between one door opening and another shutting and without that it's just a weak far-fetched story with very few laughs. The only interesting thing about the film was identifying the famous faces in the background. [/QUOTE]

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