I like Cecil Parker, and he made quite a few good films with Mervyn Johns. Sadly, though, this isn't really one of them. It comes across as a rather hastily adapted version of Lesley Storm's pretty unremarkable play with him playing a doctor who falls out with wife "Clare" (Anne Crawford) over the best way to bring up their rather precocious young son "Tony" (Anthony Lang) - who has a habit on drawing on any flat surface he can find. The last straw comes when he draws an anatomically accurate horse (which we never see) and his father flips his lid.... The gist of the film is the parents' overly contrived falling out that develops, via a series of stroppy conversations and mis-communication to lead them to split and to consider divorce before their child's behaviour finally succeeds is forcing an alignment of their attitudes to discipline... It's not rubbish, but the talents of Johns and Parker are wasted on this rather static, clunky effort that I'm glad I sat through, but I don't think I could recommend to anyone.
Review of Tony Draws a Horse
