Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman

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Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman
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Directed by Wolf Rilla
Written by Joseph McGrath
Denis Norden
Produced by David Grant
Starring Brendan Price
Sue Longhurst
Felicity Devonshire
Victoria Burgoyne
Graham Stark
Music by John Shakespeare
Release date
  • 1973 (1973)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman, also known as Naughty Wives, is a 1973 sex comedy film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Brendan Price and Sue Longhurst. [1]

Contents

Plot

A young man who gets a job as a vacuum salesman and finds that he has to fight off advances from female customers.

Cast

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite the promise of its credits Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman is a sex comedy which achieves the dual feat of being neither erotic nor funny in charting the progress of an innocent abroad in London. Joe McGrath's script lurches from one clichéd situation to another, and leans heavily for its humour on double entendres (really scraping the barrel when plodding through all the possible sexual innuendo to be wrung from the action of a vacuum cleaner), while any gags exhibiting signs of life are swiftly crushed by the actors who as with the exception of guest stars Graham Stark and Chic Murray as appear to have been selected less for comic talent than for a willingness to remove their clothes at regular intervals. Altogether, the film marks an inauspicious return to feature films by Wolf Rilla, and it is difficult to believe that this feeble romp was directed by the same man who made the imaginative Village of the Damned [1960]." [2]

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References

  1. "Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  2. "Erotic Inferno". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 40 (468): 213. 1 January 1973 via ProQuest.