The "perky girl" archetype of movies of the '60s -- fun, pert, coltish and usually blonde, as seen in Gidget (1959), Cactus Flower (1969) and Barefoot In The Park (1967), wasn't just confined to American film. High school student Tansy (Juliet Mills, older sister of Hayley) isn't quite as unrestrained as those examples -- she is upperclass British, after all --but her father (Michael Redgrave) is still pained to understand why she'd prefer playing sports to a proper Parisian finishing school education. She and fellow disenfranchised youth Cornelius (James Westmoreland, under his previous name "Rad Fulton" that starmaker agent Henry Willson bestowed upon him) have a grand old time sightseeing and camping (she in the tent, he gallantly sleeping on the ground outside) until a general's son Thomas (Michael Craig) is tasked with returning her home. Trouble is, which fella does Tansy fancy? Directed by prolific British director Ralph Thomas, who also is responsible for the Dirk Borgarde version of A Tale Of Two Cities (1958).

By Violet LeVoit