Sue Longhurst Movies
- 1976
Looming bankruptcy makes an English family stop their excessive spending in this comedy. ~ Rovi
- 1975
The British Keep It Up, Jack! is almost as subtle as its title. Jack (Mark Jones) is an unemployed oaf who enters into a shady business deal. Before he knows it, he's in possession of a bordello, populated almost exclusively by blondes. Lucky Jack doesn't know whether to stick to business or opt for pleasure. There's more to the plot than that, of course, but the folks who rent Keep It Up, Jack! are generally not interested in the storyline. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1974
Man with a Maid has also been circulated as The Groove Room and What the Swedish Butler Saw. Martin Long plays a swinging bachelor who purchases a very old London apartment. Long finds that he's inherited a roommate: The ghost of Jack the Ripper. What follows is a lumpy blend of sex farce, gratuitous nudity and appalling violence. The film's official leading lady Diana Dors is well past her prime, thus most of the sexual calisthenics are handled by others. The novelty of 3-D photography did little to improve the film's saleability (Have you ever tried to wear those clumsy polarized glasses?) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1974
- R
The British "Confessions" film series was reminiscent of the "Carry On" series, albeit far, far dirtier. Many fans consider the first entry, Confessions of a Window Cleaner, to be the best of the batch. Based on a supposedly autobiographical novel by Timothy Lea, the film stars Robin Askwith as an apprentice window washer with a voyeuristic streak. Nearly everyone with whom Askwith comes in contact is an oversexed, underdressed female. Potato-shaped
Dandy Nichols plays the protagonist's mother. An anachronism even before it was released, Confessions of a Window Cleaner was nonetheless successful enough to inspire several sequels, none of which were released to American theatres. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Dandy Nichols plays the protagonist's mother. An anachronism even before it was released, Confessions of a Window Cleaner was nonetheless successful enough to inspire several sequels, none of which were released to American theatres. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1974
- R
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In this romantic comedy a young women will only marry her boyfriend is he can hold a job for seven days. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jeremy Bulloch
- 1974
- R
The British tickle-and-teaser Naughty Wives was originally--and more modestly--titled Rosie. Diana Dors stars in this tale of a bored housewife whose brief extramarital fling leads to disaster. We're not sure if Miss Dors is supposed to be Rosie, since many reference books suggest that she plays "herself." We do know that Naughty Wives was (with the exception of a 1980 documentary) the last big-screen directorial effort from Wolf Rilla. Yes, the same Wolf Rilla who in happier days brought us the horror classic Village of the Damned. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
This is one of three Hammer films loosely based on Sheridan LeFanu's book Camilla, which gives the standard vampire story a lesbian twist. The other two films are The Vampire Lovers and Twins of Evil. In this film, Count Karnstein, through a magical ritual, relies on the feedings of the newly re-fleshed and voluptuous vampire Mircalla (Yutte Stensgaard) for his own sustenance. This keeps her very busy indeed. She finds a ready supply of victims at a girls' finishing school. Her troubles begin when two male teachers from the school decide to investigate. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
