MOVIE · 1959

Please Turn Over

Comedy87 min

The orderly life of a 1950s English town comes apart when a resident’s teenage daughter publishes a steamy bestseller whose characters look a lot like the people next door. As the book spreads, neighbors start matching fiction to real life, and small embarrassments quickly become public scandal. Ted Ray is among the suburban adults caught in the uproar, while Jean Kent and Leslie Phillips turn up in the circle of locals suddenly wondering what the whole town thinks it knows about them. The comedy comes from clipped manners, spreading gossip, and the way one sensational book unsettles an entire community.