Come Play with Me (1977)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

George Harrison Marks

Writer:

George Harrison Marks (writer)

Release Date:

28 April 1977 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Tagline:

Entertainingly funny and blushingly saucy.

Plot:

A health-resort where both the clients and the employees easily take their clothes off and have a little fun is the setting of this sex-comedy.

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Lesbian Sex | Sex | Counterfeit

Cast

George Harrison Marks	...	Cornelius Clapworthy
Alfie Bass	...	Kelly
Irene Handl	...	Lady Bovington
Ronald Fraser	...	Slasher
Tommy Godfrey	...	Blitt
Sue Longhurst	...	Christina
Ken Parry	...	Podsnap
Cardew Robinson	...	McIvar
Suzy Mandel	...	Rena
Mary Millington	...	Sue
Jerry Lorden	...	Rodney
Rita Webb	...	Rita
Queenie Watts	...	Cafe Girl
Talfryn Thomas	...	Nosegay
Bob Todd	...	Vicar

Also Known As:

David Sullivan's Come Play with Me (UK) (poster title)
Tule leikkimään kanssani (Finland) [fi]

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Bushey Studios, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Roldvale

Trivia:

Ran continuously at the Moulin Cinema in London's West End from 1977 to 1981.

Goofs:

Continuity: During the climax, Rena is simultaneously seen in the lobby (with clothes on) and downstairs in the sauna (without clothes on).

Movie Connections:

Featured in "SexTV: Goldstein/Saucy British Cinema/A Moment with... Lou Paget (#6.23)" (2004)

Soundtrack:

It's Great To Be Here

A typical British sex comedy - no laughs and hardly any sex!

This movie - which amazingly was a box office smash in the UK in the late 70s and early 80s (it ran non-stop between 1977 and 1981 in London's West End) - embodies everything that was bad about British so-called `sex films' of the era - namely a lame and tedious plot, a second-rate cast of comedy has-beens and never-were's, poor acting and very little actual sex and nudity. A version of the film containing very steamy and explicit sex scenes was actually shot, but in the puritanical climate of late-70s Britain with its notoriously restrictive anti-porn legislation sometimes known as the `Limp Dick Laws' (and sadly things haven't really changed much in the intervening 20-odd years), this was deemed unacceptable for screening to UK cinema audiences and never saw the light of day (no sex please – we're British!!). Instead, the only version of this movie that has ever been released is this sorry excuse for a film, which concentrates more on the pathetic, supposedly `funny' antics of a group of elderly crooks and the septugenarian matron at a health spa, being brightened up only occasionally by stocking-clad beauties portraying nurses. These girls are the film's only redeeming feature and indeed they should have been what the movie was all about. Instead, the few (I think there are about 4) short `sex' scenes have been so brutally edited that they come to a sudden, grinding halt just as things are getting warmed up, and we're back to the silly goings-on involving the `comedy' characters. And silly they truly are. It's almost painful to watch sometimes, encapsulting stupid, slapstick `mucky postcard'-style antics in the very worst traditions of the equally lamentable `Confessions' and `Carry On' movie series of the same era. The publicity blurb surrounding the movie at the time of its release claimed that it was `entertainingly funny and blushingly saucy', `fantastically erotic', `the sexiest sex comedy screened' and `of a highly explicit nature'. The makers should have been hauled before the courts on charges of multiple violations of the Trade Descriptions Act, because it is nothing of the sort. According to a recently published book about one of the film's more glamorous stars, the late and sadly missed Mary Millington, only one print of the uncut and unseen version is known to still exist, which is a pity. It's perhaps being a little optimistic to hope that this will one day appear on DVD as a more fitting testimony to the Mary Millington legacy.