Those People Next Door

Monthly Film Bulletin said "Interspersed with ancient music hall jokes, this film is also often in bad taste. Extremely poor."^[3]

Kine Weekly said "Down-to-earth, disarmingly ingenuous British low-life comedy drama ... The picture is a trifle class-conscious during its penultimate '"posh" sequences, but its domestic touches and recreation of conditions during the worst of the bombing periods are very true to life and produce both laughs and tears. Jack Warner typifies all that is best in the British breadwinner as Sam, and Charles Victor is effective."^[4]

According to Sky Movies, which gives the film three out of five stars, "The Rank Organisation had unexpectedly boosted its bank balance with comedies about the cockney Hugget family (starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison) in post-war years, but decided to end the series after four films. Unconvinced that this vein of comedy had been mined out, producer Tom Blakeley's Manchester-based film unit, which had made Frank Randle comedies in the war years, took an old play set in 1941, hired Jack Warner and a good cast, and let rip. Unfortunately, the characters were too unsympathetic and the piece still ran like a play, but the same distributors had better luck a couple of years later when they reunited Warner with Kathleen Harrison in Home and Away [1956]."^[5]

In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "poor", writing: "The Huggett comedy vein mined out; poor and stagey, with dislikeable characters."^[6]

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