Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Sixthformer Jamie McGregor is oppressed by his virginity and worried that his schoolfriend Spike and even his younger brother Joe are more experienced than he is. But he has an active fantasy life that principally involves Mary a beautiful and seemingly unattainable blonde. His first attempt to move from fantasy to practice is with a mindless but well developed girl called Linda. He gets taken up by Paula, a churchgoer; then by Caroline, who invites him to spend a weekend in her parents' luxurious home. Jamie is about to seduce Caroline when she passes out drunk on the bed. Finally, at a party, he manages to make love to Audrey, whom he then leaves to walk home with Mary. She agrees to go away with him for a weekend, but Jamie is soon disgusted by her coldblooded promiscuity and decides to concentrate on his studies instead of girls. Mary fails her examination, Jamie and Spike both get places at University, and Jamie is excited to learn that Mary's pretty and demure friend Claire will be at University with him.

"For teenagers and about teenagers, the only incongruity about Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush is that is should have been made by adults, so totally does it enter into the teenager's view of himself. This is not to imply that it can be enjoyed for its psychological accuracy since what Donner captures is not adolescents as they are, but as they are encouraged by advertising to believe themselves to be: extroverted, glamorous young swingers whose artificial world has its counterpart here in the psychedelic credits (yes, again), pop song accompaniment, camp fantasies and coloured filters, in the slightly démodé trendiness of Donner's style." ("Monthly Film Bulletin", n. 410, March 1968)

Director: Clive Donner.
Screenplay: Hunter Davies, dal suo romanzo.
Fotografia (Technicolor): Alex Thomson.
Editor: Fergus McDonell.
Art director: Brian Eatwell.
Music: The Spencer Davis Group, Stevie Winwood and Traffic.
Sound: Dino Di Campo.
Cast: Barry Evans (Jamie McGregor), Judy Geeson (Mary Gloucester), Angela Scoular (Caroline Beauchamp), Sheila White (Paula), Adrienne Posta (Linda), Vanessa Howard (Audrey), Diane Keen (Claire), Moyra Fraser (Mrs. McGregor), Michael Bates (Mr. McGregor), Maxine Audiey (Mrs. Beauchamp), Denholm Elliott (Mr. Beauchamp), Christopher Timothy (Spike), Nicky Henson (Craig Foster), Allan Warren (Joe McGregor), Roy Holder (Arthur), George Layton (Gordon), Gareth Robinson (Bruce), Oliver Cotton (Curtis), Andrew Hamilton (Charles Beauchamp), Sally Avory (Cath), Erika Raffael (Ingrid).
Production company: Clive Donner per la Giant.