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Director:
Ralph Thomas
Writers:
Raymond Hitchcock (novel) and
Terence Feely (additional material)
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Release Date:
3 March 1971 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
certain level of medical discretion and no excessive lavatorial humour more (4 total)

Cast

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Hywel Bennett ... Edwin Anthony
Denholm Elliott ... Emmanuel Whitbread
Elke Sommer ... Helga

Britt Ekland ... Dorothy Chiltern-Barlow
Cyd Hayman ... Moira Warrington
Janet Key ... Hazel Anthony
Tracey Crisp ... Miss Elder
Antonia Ellis ... Rita La Rousse
Tracy Reed ... Mrs. Penney
Patrick Mower ... James Vaile
Pauline Delaney ... Sister Flanagan
Adrienne Posta ... Maggie Hyde
Julia Foster ... Marilyn
Sheila Steafel ... Mrs. Gold
Arthur English ... Pub Comic
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
USA:103 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:L | Australia:M (re-rating) (1985) | Australia:R (re-rating) (1971) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 (video rating) | USA:R | Ireland:(Banned)
Filming Locations:
Elstree Film and TV Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Company:
Anglo-EMI more

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Trivia:
The first movie to be legally restricted to adults in Australia when new film censorship standards were introduced in 1971. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello (1980) more
Soundtrack:
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16 out of 16 people found the following comment useful.
certain level of medical discretion and no excessive lavatorial humour, 5 August 2001
Author: rogierr from Amsterdam, Netherlands

Percy (the transplant) is obviously not a very intellectual movie, but somehow funny and harmless. A friendly guy gets a penis transplant and starts looking for the original owner, because he suffers from identity problems. Along the way are sixties' sex kittens Elke Sommer (Shot in the dark '64) and Britt Ekland (Wickerman '73, Get Carter '71). In a way it is actually a very friendly SF without violence and with funny situations and (ironically) sincere human emotions underneath. It's not even bad acted; maybe a little shaky directed. The problem with this flick is that the technicalities aren't convincing and there isn't excessive lavatorial humour, so that kids will probably not enjoy it: the film falls between two stools, because the subject might not be appealing enough for adults (apart from Britt Ekland completists). See for yourself: it's a meaningless little piece with a certain level of medical discretion and appropriate music too. And it's not even the only flick on that subject matter either. Not that I ever want to see it again though.

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