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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 315409" data-attributes="member: 23">It was a pleasant surprise to find that the film version of For The Love Of Ada wasn&#039;t a greatest hits retelling of the original story but a continuation as Walter and Ada celebrate their first wedding anniversary.That&#039;s not to say some of the dialogue didn&#039;t have a ring of familiarity. But not as much as I&#039;d expected.In common with big screen versions of its peers from the era, there&#039;s a different tone from the series itself. Gone is the studio audience and, indeed, the studio, with familiar sets replaced with what appear to be real indoor locations. As with the other film versions of TV series, there&#039;s a series of misunderstandings and a hint of Carry On sauce. The latter mostly comes from Andrea Lawrence&#039;s slutty Sandra who wastes no time in leading Leslie astray by shampooing his hair and asking him to help with her stock-take at the barbers (not that he needs to be led that far, with Leslie as sleazy as he&#039;s ever been here).I&#039;ve only just realised that Leslie&#039;s wide boy friend Brian is Mr Mash from Are You Being Served? I&#039;d thought the familiarity came from him looking a bit like Columbo. His Are You Being Served? replacement, Arthur Leslie is also present here as a gravedigger friend of Walter. Otherwise, familiar faces are fairly minimal. There&#039;s no Mollie Sugden or Patsy Rowlands, for example. Nor that little Scottish colleague that Leslie fancied. But that&#039;s all fine. Ada wasn&#039;t a particularly showy series and that carries across into the film. Indeed, even here it feels a little too diluted from its slightly larger scale and larger cast.I&#039;m not sure how the film would hold up as a standalone piece to someone who hasn&#039;t seen the series, but I&#039;d hope well enough. I certainly enjoyed it as an additional little treat to follow up the series itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 315409, member: 23"] It was a pleasant surprise to find that the film version of [I]For The Love Of Ada[/I] wasn't a greatest hits retelling of the original story but a continuation as Walter and Ada celebrate their first wedding anniversary. That's not to say some of the dialogue didn't have a ring of familiarity. But not as much as I'd expected. In common with big screen versions of its peers from the era, there's a different tone from the series itself. Gone is the studio audience and, indeed, the studio, with familiar sets replaced with what appear to be real indoor locations. As with the other film versions of TV series, there's a series of misunderstandings and a hint of Carry On sauce. The latter mostly comes from Andrea Lawrence's slutty Sandra who wastes no time in leading Leslie astray by shampooing his hair and asking him to help with her stock-take at the barbers (not that he needs to be led that far, with Leslie as sleazy as he's ever been here). I've only just realised that Leslie's wide boy friend Brian is Mr Mash from [I]Are You Being Served?[/I] I'd thought the familiarity came from him looking a bit like [I]Columbo[/I]. His [I]Are You Being Served?[/I] replacement, Arthur Leslie is also present here as a gravedigger friend of Walter. Otherwise, familiar faces are fairly minimal. There's no Mollie Sugden or Patsy Rowlands, for example. Nor that little Scottish colleague that Leslie fancied. But that's all fine. [I]Ada[/I] wasn't a particularly showy series and that carries across into the film. Indeed, even here it feels a little too diluted from its slightly larger scale and larger cast. I'm not sure how the film would hold up as a standalone piece to someone who hasn't seen the series, but I'd hope well enough. I certainly enjoyed it as an additional little treat to follow up the series itself. [/QUOTE]

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