What Every Woman Wants is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring William Sylvester, Elsie Albiin, Brenda De Banzie and Patric Doonan. It also features Brian Rix and Prunella Scales. It was based on a play Relations Are Best Apart by Edwin Lewis. It was shot at Walton Studios outside London. The film's sets were designed by the art director John Stoll.
Premise
A newly married couple have to live with the wife's parents and extended family in a small overcrowded house in the English Midlands.
Cast
William Sylvester as Jim Barnes
Elsie Albiin as Jane
Brenda De Banzie as Sarah
Patric Doonan as Mark
Dominic Roche as Bill
Joan Hickson as Polly Ann
Brian Rix as Herbert
Joan Sims as Doll
Beckett Bould as Tom
Prunella Scales as Mary
Douglas Ives as Sam
Edwin Richfield as Frank
Critical reception
TV Guide rated the film two out of five stars, and noted "a realistic drama," in which,"housing shortages and unemployment, both delicate problems in England at the time, are treated in an effective, unpreachy manner."