Tuesday, May 12, 2020

No Sex Please - We're British (1973)

A very British 1970s film with the usual kind of saucy innuendo and farce humour. The quiet and regimented life at a bank in Windsor is thrown into chaos when a consignment of pornographic photographs (and later other blue material) is accidentally sent there to the assistant manager David Hunter (Ian Ogilvy). Unfortunately the manager Mr Bromley (Arthur Lowe) is on a crusade to stamp out porn...

David, his wife Penny (Susan Penhaligon) and the chief cashier Brian Runnicles (Ronnie Corbett) don't know what to do with the porn as they fear they'll end up in prison. David's mother (Beryl Reid) is also around adding to the chaos...

Although the cast is a who's who of British comedians the result is a bit less than the sum of the parts though still not bad at all. The film isn't without its funny moments though is a little too much like a stage farce (indeed was an adaptation of one) with a little too much running around in scenes, sometimes it drowns out the funny lines. As a period piece it is wonderful. As a comedy film it is decent... despite being about indecency!