Portmanteau films were popular in the forties.They generally had a common theme.In this film the theme is Bond Street..This is an upmarket street which runs south from Oxford Street.Lots of fashion shops are here.The first episode is set in such an establishment.The featured actress is Kathleen Harrison as a free-market who is waiting on the birth of her grandchild and is poorly treated by her employer.Only the presence of Harrison makes this watchable.The second episode features Jean Kent as a bit of a con artist..A robbery of a jewelers leads to murder.The.It gets very murderer makes her flat his hideout.However they end up in bed together.It gets very talky and rather silly.The third episode is set in an invisible mending shop..Kenneth Griffiths gives a typically nasty character who sponges off his wife and decides to up his game to blackmail..An enjoyable performance and that was it.The fourth episode features Roland Young..Robert Flemyng is about to get married when a former flame from Denmark arrives to stay with him for good..It is an amusing finale to a rather uneven film
Review of Bond Street
