Diana Dors

Queenie's Castle has a certain native vigour which is dissipated by the fact that the queen herself lacks natural authority. Diana Dors's basic gentility and backhanders with a handbag are no substitute for the required basilisk eye and blistering tongue.

One must grant "Queenie's Castle" (Yorkshire) a kind of courage. The Shepherd family in general, and Queenie in particular have positively no redeeming features. A drunken, thieving, common burden of the Welfare State, giving the place a bad name, lowering the tone of the neighbourhood, their only glory is their buoyancy.