(269) FAMILY WAY (1966) Hayley Mills | music by Paul McCartney
4977DVD
director: The Boutling Brothers [Roy and John Boutling]
starring: Hayley Mills · Hywel Bennett · John Mills · Marjorie Rhodes
· Barry Foster · Murray Head
music by Paul McCartney
Ahead
of its time, this film by Roy Boulting is another British project spawned
by the Swinging Sixties, this time telling the story of a young married
couple who run into trouble with the sexual side of marriage. It's based
on the award-winning play by Bill Naughton All In Good Time,
finding huge success in the UK and Europe upon release in 1966 [but
rejected by theater-goers in the USA, seemingly as a protest against
the 'maturing' of former-Disney star Hayley Mills]. She plays Jenny,
a young virgin who marries Arthur Fitton, but the couple finds stress
and embarrassment when they seem incapable of having sex. Besides flaunting
taboo subject matter, the film also shocked audiences with a Hayley
Mills nude scene.
Music
fans [Beatle fans] take note: the score for this movie is written and
composed by Paul McCartney, with assistance from his producer George
Martin [see pic below, right], making it the first solo project by any
of the Beatles. This caused much controversy at the time as many people
thought it signaled the 'beginning of the end' for the Fab Four. In
a VERY interesting side note, according to the
credit sequence, the assistant sound director is Pete Best [the original
Beatle who was replaced by Ringo Starr four years prior].
Haley
Mills, the former Disney 'child' actress (The Parent Trap,
That Darn Cat, et al) and pop singer (Let's
Get Together), used this movie and the subsequent TWISTED
NERVE [both directed by Roy Boulting] to break from her bubblegum
Pollyanna image. In addition, shortly after making these two movies,
Hayley became director Boulting's mistress while he filed for divorce,
eventually marrying him despite their 33 year age difference. She was
the subject of the British gossip pages for years to follow.
A British
film, in English language; fullscreen format, uncut 105 minutes,
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT.
Extras include original theatrical trailer plus music video for "Let's
Get Together"
Sexual
Situations/Nudity/Violence
Intended For Mature Audiences
