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Jul 25, 1973 · No Sex Please - We're British: Directed by Cliff Owen. With Ronnie Corbett, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe, Ian Ogilvy. A mistaken address causes a newlywed couple's apartment to fill up with mail-order Swiss porn... right before a visit by the wife's father, a bank president who happens to be the husband's new employer.
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Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of Barclays Bank in Windsor High Street), 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 farcicalseries of events involving a bank ins...
Writing in 1979, at the time of the American release, The New York Timesreviewer commented: "In its own way, it is well done ... (with) its simple-minded and by now rather outdated double and triple entendres." TV Guidesaid: "A pleasing performance from Corbett ... saves this otherwise average British farce from the usual doldrums."
No Sex Please, We're British at British Comedy GuideNo Sex Please, We're British at IMDbOriginally a Box Office hit on the stage in 1971, No Sex Please, We’re British concerns the impact of a sex shop (The Aphrodisia Bookshop ) on a suburban high street, where it is flanked by the Christian Reading Room and Barclay’s Bank. The plot is simple and farcical – A bank clerk (Ronnie Corbett) receives the sex shop’s delivery by ...
Aug 16, 2011 · NO SEX PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISHBy Anthony Marriott and Alistair FootDirected by David RiceFeaturing Daniel Bush, Ran Cummings, Julia Garland, Daniel Harrington,...
No Sex Please, We're British. No Sex Please, We're British is a British farce written by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott, which premiered in London's West End on 3 June 1971 at the Strand Theatre. [1] It was panned by critics, but ran until 5 September 1987, [2] transferring to the Garrick and the Duchess during the run of 6,761 performances.
- Alistair Foot, Anthony Marriott
- 1971
When the postman accidentally delivers a parcel of pornographic postcards to a stuffy bank, the uptight, repressed employees undergo a drastic change of sexual outlook...sending the bank up for grabs.
From the Broadway play. Porn-shop owner Pete, orders some new stuff from his supplier Niko, but Niko mixes up the address with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, newlyweds David (the bank's assistant manager) and Penny Hunter are shocked when first photos, then films, and finally two girls are sent to them in the Bank's flat.
