High Rise Donkey is a 1980 children's comedy film directed by Michael Forlong and starring Leigh Gotch, Wendy Cook and Linda Frith.[1] It was written by T.E.B. Clarke and produced by Anvil Film and Recording Group, sponsored by the Children's Film Foundation.[2]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Veteran talent from the British film industry continues to take shelter in the Children's Film Foundation: here we find T. E. B. Clarke, Hugh Stewart (a producer for Norman Wisdom), along with the usual gallery of familiar supporting players. But anyone looking for a reprise of the Ealing spirit in Clarke's script will be sadly disappointed, unless one counts a faint whiff of Whisky Galore when all the flats' assorted frogs, tortoises, goldfish, snakes and mice are hurried away or hidden from the caretaker's prying eyes. The bulk of the material is defiantly ordinary, the dialogue offering little more than a simple verbal commentary on the action, sprinkled with a few choice sermons (always put your dog's name and address on its collar) and morsels of slang so old-fashioned that they backfire ("That would be groovy!" says the youngest of the Everitt trio). By CFF standards, this is distinctly average entertainment."[3]
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