Come Back Peter (1969 film)

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Come Back Peter
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Film poster
Directed by Donovan Winter
Written byDonovan Winter
Produced byDonovan Winter
StarringChristopher Matthews
CinematographyGus Coma
Ian D. Struthers
Edited byDonovan Winter
Production
company
Donwin Productions
Distributed byRichard Schulman Entertainments
Release date
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Come Back Peter is a 1969 British sex comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Donovan Winter and starring Christopher Matthews. [1] It was reissued in the UK with additional footage in 1976 under the title Some Like It Sexy. [2] [3]

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Plot

Peter, a young Londoner, drives around town in a sports car delivering wrapped gifts to various women, with whom he has sexual encounters: a foreign au pair, a model, a high-class lady, incestuous twins, a blues singer, a cannabis-smoking hippie, and a girl next door from The Salvation Army. At the end of the film, Peter is revealed to be a butcher's delivery boy having sexual fantasies while driving his van. The butcher scolds Peter for daydreaming on the job.

Cast

Critical response

Kine Weekly wrote: "The film is brightly dressed in the modern manner and the general unreal atmosphere of the plot is explained by the fantasy revelation at the end. The young man's adventures are with a variety of young women, but the sex is, of necessity, somewhat repetitious and the direction includes some annoyingly distracting technical gimmicks." [4]

In The Monthly Film Bulletin Nigel Andrews wrote: "A charmless and flashy film which attempts to combine customary sex fare with evocations of Swinging London and a colourful cross-section of modern womanhood. But for all Donovan Winter's attempts to vary the menu, the appetite is soon cloyed by the monotony of the presentation. Each encounter is punctuated with a symbolic shot of a butcher cutting up meat; the dialogue is card-indexed according to social type ("Turn me on! Freak me out, man!" croons the hippie); and Christopher Matthews' change of wardrobe for each bird fails to alleviate the vulgar tedium of his adventures." [5]

Variety said: "The picture which, at least, is short, really adds up to very little but may have a basic appeal to "swingers" and young Lotharios will roving eyes for birds." [6]

The film was negatively received by Derek Malcolm of The Guardian and Nina Hibbin of the Morning Star . [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Come Back Peter". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  2. ↑ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books, 2011, p. 63-64.
  3. ↑ Clark, Graeme. "Some Like It Sexy". thespinningimage.co.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  4. ↑ "Come Back Peter". Kine Weekly . 644 (3304): 22. 6 February 1971 – via ProQuest.
  5. ↑ "Come Back Peter". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 19 (216): 109. 1 January 1939 – via ProQuest.
  6. ↑ "Come Back Peter". Variety . 242 (1): 18. 17 February 1971 – via ProQuest.
  7. ↑ "Eight Critics on the Month's Films". The Monthly Film Bulletin . Vol. 38, no. 446. British Film Institute. March 1971.
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