Keep It Up, Jack

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Keep It Up, Jack
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Directed by Derek Ford
Screenplay by Alan Selwyn
Derek Ford
Produced by Michael L. Green
Starring Mark Jones
Sue Longhurst
Linda Regan
Frank Thornton
Queenie Watts
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Maggi Burton
Steve Veidor
Jennifer Westbrook
Cinematography Geoff Glover
Edited by Pat Foster
Music by Terry Warr
Production
company
Blackwater Films
Distributed byVariety Film Distributors
Release date
  • 27 March 1974 (1974-03-27)
(United Kingdom)
Running time
84 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Keep It Up, Jack is a 1974 British sex comedy film directed by Derek Ford and starring Mark Jones. [1] It was written by Ford and Alan Selwyn, and produced by Michael L. Green.

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Plot

Jack James is an unsuccessful music hall entertainer and drag artist who inherits a brothel from his late aunt, and impersonates her in order to seduce the female clients.

Cast

Production

The film also exists in a version with hardcore inserts, but there is no suggestion that any of the credited cast participated in it. [2]

In 2022 Dark Force Entertainment released the longer, hardcore version of the film on blu-ray.

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "An extended series of charades, played round a none too substantial comic theme. The plot is left to totter haphazardly from one situation to the next, while Mark Jones zips through from one costume change to the next, displaying commendable physical facility but scarcely one memorable personality amongst all the opportunities provided. When out of drag, he comes across as a close impersonation of Norman Wisdom." [3]

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References

  1. "Keep It Up, Jack". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd
  3. "Keep It Up, Jack". Monthly Film Bulletin . 41 (480): 74. 1974. ProQuest   1305830227 via ProQuest.