Come Back Peter

Yet another film made in the original austerity Britain that modern viewers will find only too familiar today. This lively sequel to 'Fly Away Peter' (1948) - with more exteriors and which even employs split-screen a couple of times - serves as a useful corrective to all those other British movies made at the time set in houses the size of Blenheim.

As the chicks that had originally flown the nest return to the much smaller home their parents now occupy, a 21st Century audience will find the cramped existence the Hapgoods now find thrust upon them - like being forced to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs (how any homes even have one of those these days?), not to mention money worries - only too familiar nearly seventy years later.