Intimate Games (1978)

Director:

Tudor Gates
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Writer:

Tudor Gates (writer)

Release Date:

24 April 1978 (Finland)

Genre:

Adult | Romance

Tagline:

Together at last...playing Intimate Games

Plot:

A psychology teacher assigns his university class a project about personal fantasies. |

Plot Keywords:

Psychology | Thumb Sucking | Lesbian Sex | Housewife | Interracial Sex

Cast

George Baker	...	Prof. Gottlieb
Felicity Devonshire	...	Cathy
Suzy Mandel	...	Erica
Anna Bergman	...	Suzy
Heather Deeley	...	Marion
Peter Blake	...	John
Chet Townsend	...	Nick
Edward Kalinski	...	Benny
Maria St. Clare	...	June
Queenie Watts	...	John's mother
Hugh Lloyd	...	John's father
Joyce Blair	...	Beryl
Johnny Vyvyan	...	Jockey
Claire Davenport	...	Fat stripper
Ian Hendry	...	Uncle Rodney
Norman Chappell	...	Principal
Monika Ringwald	...	Naked secretary
Martin Neil	...	Joe
Barbara Eatwell	...	Pigeon girl
Lindy Benson	...	Blonde wife (as Linda Benson)
Forbes Collins	...	Squire
Jonathan David	...	Interrogator
John Benson	...	Executive
Dudley Stevens	...	Prisoner
Normaline	...	Hazel (the maid)
Susan Glanville	...	Frustrated housewife
Guy Standeven	...	Psychiatrist
Steve Amber	...	Imaginary lover
Peppi Borza	...	Dancer
John Melainey	...	Dancer
Roger Finch	...	Dancer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Clarke	...	Gay Motorist (uncredited)
Mary Millington	...	Choir Girl (uncredited)

Directed by
Tudor Gates
Martin Campbell		(location) (uncredited)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Tudor Gates		writer

Produced by
Guido Coen	....	producer

Original Music by
Roger Webb

Cinematography by
Frank Watts

Film Editing by
Pat Foster

Art Direction by
Tony Curtis

Makeup Department
Penny Bell	....	makeup artist
Marsha Lewis	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Martin Campbell	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Nick Farnes	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Gerry Humphreys	....	sound re-recording mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Mike Tomlin	....	assistant camera

Other crew
Mary Dalison	....	continuity

Production Companies

• Podenhale

Distributors

• Blake Films (1977) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Tigon Film Distributors (1976) (UK) (theatrical)
• Beyond Home Entertainment (2011) (Australia) (DVD)
• Image Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

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Also Known As:

"Sex Games of the Very Rich" -
"Intiimit leikit" - Finland

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:R (1977) | Finland:(Banned) (1977) | Finland:K-18 (re-rating) | UK:X

Filming Locations:

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Podenhale

Trivia:

The original film poster mimicked the five-ringed Olympic symbol, with the star's faces bursting through the circles. The Olympic Association threatened to sue, so the glamorous stars collected money in Piccadilly Circus for the British Olympic team.

Movie Connections:

References Jaws (1975)

Has its moments

The blurb on the back of the Jezebel DVD says that this movie "oozes Britain in the 1970's". Well, it definitely oozes something. . . A professor (George Baker) gives an assignment to male-female pairs of his students to examine sex fantasies over a holiday break. For anybody else, this would a recipe for non-stop softcore scromping, but as usual the Brits have to include WAY too much of a plot and a lot of pretty pathetic attempts at humor. Instead of these attractive young people being content to simply, um, interview each other, one of them interviews an older, unattractive barmaid, another interviews his pigeon-obsessed father (don't ask), and one even interviews an elderly jockey with a serious fat fetish. Needless, to say these people's fantasies usually fall well short of eroticism and are only very funny if you are on nitrous oxide and/or are British.

One Swedish girl with a thumb-sucking fetish (once again, don't ask)played by Anna Bergman interviews her uncle (Ian Hendry) while they are playing a game of billiards. Naturally, his fantasy involves her being a butt-naked while they play. But as enjoyable as it is to see Ingemar Bergman's lovely daughter sans clothing, it's even more sad to see a great actor like Ian Hendry (who was in "Repulsion") reduced to this kind of rubbish. But speaking of "Repulsion" I think there is some kind of homage to that movie here as well with a brief bit about housewife who cures her intense agoraphobia with sexual fantasies (okay, whatever). Of course, the students do have some real sex with each other eventually. One nerdy guy scores with Felicity Devonshire. Marie St. Claire takes all her clothes off for another nerdy guy so he'll be "less distracted". And in the hottest scene Suzy Mandel and Heather Deely discuss lesbianism and decide to experiment with each other. . .

The best reason to see this movie is that it features almost all the British sex stars of the era--Bergman, Mandel, Devonshire, Dealy, etc. (with the exception of Linda Hayden and Koo Stark, who were in a bit higher class, and Fiona Richmond, who wouldn't have been remotely believable as a college student). Mary Millington even shows up in a brief (and uncharacteristically clothed) cameo as a virginal girl who receives an unexpected "back-door delivery" while singing a Cat Steven's song(?) with her church choir. This movie isn't great by any means, but I guess it has its moments.