Review of A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

I discovered this wee gem quite unexpectedly on Talking Picture's TV which shows all manor of old films on UK Freeview. Oh how I wish it had been shot in colour but nevertheless this is as sweet a nostalgic charmer as you will find with a gentle romantic thread spinning through a wistful story of a West Yorkshire cycle club among some soap opera family rumbles. Filmed in and around Skipton In North Yorkshire the film has as a background amazing shots of small town and shire life as it was just after World War 2. The cast includes A very young Diana Dora already in her 12th film and Honor Blackman long before Goldfinger with the reliable if unremarkable John McCallum as the films nominal star. This movie really is like a time capsule rich with cultural and social observations of just how we all were three quarters of a century ago. I Loved every sprocket of it.