A MATTER OF OPINION

I remember reading about the Profumo Affair in the DAILY TELEGRAPH at the time of the events. My father was appalled at the reception Mandy Rice Davies received when she visited Newcastle, “as if she was a film star.” With the passage of half-a-century this beautifully acted and presented film puts events into historical perspective for me. It came as a surprise when I read a recent opinion “this was an utterly terrible, non substance film. It is a seedy, perverted, old man's day dream.” What a repressed son of the Manse wrote this? I stick by my original view that this is an excellent movie.

Mandy Rice-Davies seems to have had wit as well as good looks. Later she described her life "as a slow decline into respectability." Good line!