{{Short description|1962 British film by Robert Asher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}} {{Infobox film | name = She'll Have to Go | image = "She'll_Have_to_Go"_(1962_film).jpg | caption = Original British 1-sheet poster | director = Robert Asher | producer = Jack Asher<br>Robert Asher | screenplay = John Waterhouse | based_on = a play ''We Must Kill Toni'' by Ian Stuart Black | starring = Anna Karina<br>Bob Monkhouse<br>Alfred Marks | music = Philip Green | cinematography = Jack Asher | editing = Gerry Hambling | studio = Asher Brothers Productions | distributor = Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors | released = {{film date|1962|4}} | runtime = 89 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English }}
'''''She'll Have to Go''''' (U.S. title '''''Maid for Murder''''')<ref name="nytimes">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/100961/Maid-for-Murder/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026085759/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/100961/Maid-for-Murder/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2012 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Sandra Brennan |date=2012 |title=NY Times.com: Maid for Murder |accessdate=24 January 2010 }}</ref> is a 1962 black and white British comedy film directed by Robert Asher and starring Bob Monkhouse, Alfred Marks, Hattie Jacques and Anna Karina.<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=She'll Have to Go |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150056563 |access-date=25 January 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was adapted by John Waterhouse from Ian Stuart Black's 1957 play ''We Must Kill Toni''.
It was one of several low budget comedies from Anglo Amalgamated.<ref name="three">{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/forgotten-british-moguls-nat-cohen-part-three-1962-68/|date=21 January 2025|access-date=21 January 2025|title=Forgotten British Moguls: Nat Cohen – Part Three (1962-68)}}</ref>
==Plot== When cash-strapped brothers Francis and Douglas discover their wealthy grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, a French maid, they immediately start plotting. When Toni visits, both men attempt to woo her, but when their efforts fail, they decide on murder as their likeliest option to acquire the money.
==Cast== * Bob Monkhouse as Francis Oberon * Alfred Marks as Douglas Oberon * Hattie Jacques as Miss Richards * Anna Karina as Toni * Dennis Lotis as Gilbert * Graham Stark as Arnold * Clive Dunn as chemist * Hugh Lloyd as Macdonald * Peter Butterworth as doctor * Harry Locke as stationmaster * Pat Coombs as train passenger * Larry Taylor as train driver
== Critical reception == ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' wrote: "Rather tepid stage farce with a promising start – a massive, crumbling, cliff-top mansion – and a whacky ending, but a flat and arid stretch in the middle. Bob Monkhouse tends to overdo the antics of one of the self-centred brothers; Hattie Jacques is a splendid vision as a hilariously-hatted gossip columnist, but the role soon peters out; Anna Karina supplies the glamour, and Graham Stark, Clive Dunn and Peter Butterworth contribute built-in cameos of a kind that many will find tiresome. The production generally lacks polish."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1962 |title=She'll Have to Go |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305821257 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=29 |issue=336 |pages=84 |id={{ProQuest|1305821257}} }}</ref>
''The Radio Times Guide to Films'' gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "This mediocre comedy was something of a family affair. The Asher brothers co-produced the picture, with Robert also directing and his younger sibling, Jack, as cinematographer. They might have been better off having a crack at the script, too, as John Waterhouse's adaptation is so slipshod that not even Hattie Jacques can bring it to life. But most sympathy goes to Jean-Luc Godard's then wife Anna Karina, who looks lost fighting off gold-digging brothers Bob Monkhouse and Alfred Marks."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=Immediate Media Company |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edition=18th |location=London |pages=829}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0056478|title=She'll Have to Go}} {{Robert Asher}}
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