oh some marvellous performances in it, but really it was joan littlewood's intrinsic concept which was miraculous really, that's  and really i don't know whether the movie lost a lot as against the play — i think it lost something — the important thing was that millions of people who would never have seen it, had it remained purely as a theatre production, did see what joan littlewood had to say, saw her perceptions, her wit, her humanity, and therefore i think it was well worth making.