Pretty Polly (film)
Miss Polly Barlow decides to leave England and spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion.While in Singapore, the sudden demise of her aunt leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arms'-length romance with a local Indian Singaporean tour guide, Amaz."[5] The British televised film of the short story, starring Lynn Redgrave and Donald Houston, aired in July 1966 as part of Armchair Theatre.[8] The film was part of a slate of four movies that Universal was making in Britain under the auspices of Jay Kanter, the studio's head of operations there.[14] Director Guy Green later stated that one of his mistakes in making the film was not casting George Hamilton, who he had worked with on Light in the Piazza as the Indian "because he had that cynical edge to it which Shashi who was marvellous didn't have it all."On 22 June 1967, Coward wrote in his diary: I... watched, with mounting irritation, the film of Pretty Polly which, as I deduced from the first script, was common, unsubtle and vulgar.It lacks something – extra characterisation, location footage, a plot twist" adding Mills was "actually quite good in the part, incidentally – better than the film, something that would become a recurring theme in her later career.