Love in Our Time

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Love in Our Time
Directed by Elkan Allan
Produced by Tony Tenser
StarringGino Melvazzi
Ann Michelle
Declan Cuffe
Bill Cummings
Joanne Harding
Narrated by Elkan Allan
Music by Reg Tilsley
Production
company
Distributed byTigon
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Love in Our Time is a 1968 British film documentary about sex. It was directed and narrated by Elkan Allan. [1] [2]

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References

  1. John Hamilton, Beasts in the Cellar: The Exploitation Film Career of Tony Tenser, Fab Press, 2005 p 123-124
  2. Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 56

The theme song to the film "Love In Our Time" was sung by Glo Macari.