No Sex Please, We're British (film)

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No Sex Please: We're British
"No Sex Please, We're British" (1973).jpg
Directed by Cliff Owen
Screenplay byAdaptation
Brian Cooke
Johnnie Mortimer
Based on No Sex Please, We're British
by Alistair Foot
Anthony Marriott
Produced by John R. Sloan
Starring Ronnie Corbett
Ian Ogilvy
Susan Penhaligon
Beryl Reid
Arthur Lowe
Cinematography Ken Hodges
Edited by Ralph Kemplen
Music by Eric Rogers
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
25 July 1973 (UK)
10 August 1979 (USA)
Running time
91 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

No Sex Please, We're British is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen, and starring Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon, and Arthur Lowe. It was based on the 1971 play No Sex Please, We're British , with multiple changes in the film adaptation.

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Synopsis

Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of Barclays Bank in Windsor High Street), [1] [2] is horrified when a package arrives containing pornography, rather than the new calculator he expected. His efforts to dispose of it, while avoiding detection, turn into a farcical series of events involving a bank inspector, the police, and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs.

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Critical reception

Writing in 1979, at the time of the American release, The New York Times reviewer commented: "In its own way, it is well done ... (with) its simple-minded and by now rather outdated double and triple entendres." [3]

TV Guide said: "A pleasing performance from Corbett ... saves this otherwise average British farce from the usual doldrums." [4]

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References

  1. No Sex Please, We're British at IMDb
  2. "YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  3. Buckley, Tom (10 August 1979). "Movie Review – No Sex Please We re British – Screen: Double Debut From Britain at Thalia:Contrasting Roles". The New York Times . Retrieved 7 March 2014.
  4. "No Sex Please-We're British". TV Guide. Retrieved 7 March 2014.