- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1978
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
Sex-starved beauty cannot inflame her husband’s ardor. In frustration, she seduces a string of VIPs.- Themes:
- Courage
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Empathy
- Free Speech
- Humanity
- Identity
Self-belief Self-expression - Sexual Repression
- Social class
- White culture
- Similar to:
- Emmanuelle
- Review Format:
- DVD
She doesn’t want “Tom” or “Harry” - she wants “Dick”!
If not for the presence of the clearly-enjoying-himself Kenneth CONNOR & and the very game and immensely prick-stiffening Suzanne DANIELLE, this movie would not be much fun.
The problem throughout is a crisis of identity. Is it a typical Carry On, where sexual activity is hinted-at - via double entendre and innuendo - but never shown. Or, a Confessions- or Adventures of-type comedy where the fleshy couplings are more explicit? It cannot quite decide and falls a little flat by attempting a compromise between the two.
In a sense, this movie is not a veritable Carry On, since the attempt to change such a rigid formula could never really work because it relied on certain, unique, performers who could never be replaced. (In this, Carry on Emmannuelle had much the same problem as the Hammer horror movies; hence, their decline.) Unlike Bond or Dr Who, the producers of this movie discovered they could not change the leading players or style without hurting the franchise.
Not one of the best Carry Ons, yet still an agreeable way to spend some time with old friends who have given so much comedic pleasure to so many.
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