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Let's Get Laid

{{Short description|1978 British film by James Kenelm Clarke}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Let's Get Laid

| image = Let's Get Laid.jpg

| caption =

| director = James Kenelm Clarke

| producer = Brian Smedley-Aston

| writer = {{ubl|Michael Robson|Sam Cree (play)}}

| narrator =

| starring = {{ubl|Robin Askwith|Fiona Richmond|Anthony Steel|Linda Hayden}}

| music = James Kenelm Clarke

| distributor = Target International

| released = {{Film date|1978|05}}

| runtime = 90 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

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Let's Get Laid, also known as Love Trap, is a 1978 British comedy film directed by James Kenelm Clarke and starring Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond and Anthony Steel.{{Cite web |title=Let's Get Laid |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150057457 |access-date=5 December 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} A man returns to London after being demobbed at the end of the Second World War, only to find himself suspected of a murder in Wapping.

Anthony Steel and Fiona Richmond had previously starred together in Hardcore (1977).{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/the-emasculation-of-anthony-steel-a-cold-streak-saga/|title=The Emasculation of Anthony Steel: A Cold Streak Saga

|date=September 23, 2020}}

Cast

{{cast listing|* Fiona Richmond as Maxine Lupercal

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Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The audience always knows what to expect of Maxine Lupercal's films, explains one of the unit, alluding to the fact that (in a feeble running gag) the same script is used for all of them. It is unlikely, however, given its title and co-stars, that patrons of Let's Get Laid! will be expecting a lame comedy-thriller shakily set in the late Forties (although its material more properly belongs to the preceding decade). The film remains fatally undecided whether to go for parody or pastiche, and duly fails as either, with only the on-stage finale (seemingly cribbed from Danny Kaye's Knock on Wood) sufficiently well-timed to make any impact. Moreover, Robin Askwith looks no more at ease in his George Formby guise than does Fiona Richmond as a latter-day Gainsborough Girl. As a concession to the raincoat trade, however, she is allowed to display her more customary charms in some arbitrarily inserted dream interludes, one of which dubiously attires her, in the brief pause before the stripping starts, in a Nazi uniform."{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1978 |title=Train of Events |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305832824/7C3BE3BDDD7242FCPQ/1 |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=45 |issue=528 |pages=137 |via=ProQuest}}

The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Also known as Love Trap, this was Robin Askwith's farewell to the world of soft-core comedy. When you've been reduced to playing characters called Gordon Laid, it's easy to see how the novelty might have worn thin. The director is James Kenelm Clarke, whose involvement with the genre came after directing a BBC documentary on pornography."{{Cite book |title=Radio Times Guide to Films |publisher=Immediate Media Company |year=2017 |isbn=9780992936440 |edition=18th |location=London |pages=538}}

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb title|0076310}}

Category:1978 films

Category:1970s sex comedy films

Category:1970s English-language films

Category:British sex comedy films

Category:Films set in the 1940s

Category:1978 comedy films

Category:Films set in London

Category:Films directed by James Kenelm Clarke

Category:1970s British films

Category:English-language sex comedy films

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