Sex Play (1974/I)

Director:

Jack Arnold

Writers:

Jameson Brewer (writer)
Peer J. Oppenheimer (writer)

Release Date:

September 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Young daughter of High ranking political figure gets into trouble when she and her friends compete at bedding the foreign diplomats. |

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Christina Hart	...	Bunny O'Hara
Jane Anthony	...	Jackie
Ed Bishop	...	Secretary Beard
Murray Kash	...	Dr. Wolfgang Meyer
Drina Pavlovic	...	Salina
Jill Damas	...	Christine
Eric Young	...	Wang Lo
Erin Geraghty	...	Ducky
Steve Plytas	...	Krashneff
David Beale	...	Lord Teakwood
Gordon Sterne	...	O'Hara
Eunice Black	...	Miss Grimm
Rex Wei	...	Chen Ling
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sarah Brackett	...	Harriet
Myvanwy Jenn	...	Judith
Irene Peters	...	Melinda (as Melinda Tracey)
Caroline Whitaker	...	Agnes

Also Known As:

The Bunny Caper (Philippines: English title) (USA)
The Games Girls Play

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | Canada:18 (Nova Scotia) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England, UK

Company:

Elite Syndicate

Movie Connections:

Featured in Taboo: The Beginning of Erotic Cinema (2004) (V)

No regrets

This film, also known as "Games Girls Play" and "The Bunny Caper", is a strange animal. It's a British sex comedy in some sense, largely filmed in England and with somewhat of a British sensibility, but both the director (Jack Arnold) and lead actress (Christina Hart) were Americans. Arnold was actually a very respected director at one point, responsible for such films as "The Incredible Shrinking Man", "Tarantula", and the original "Creature from the Black Lagoon". Clearly, his career was in decline here, but this is certainly much better made and bigger budgeted than your average 70's sex romp, and Hart and the other girls are genuinely pretty (which wasn't always the case in 70's sex films) and also silicone-free (which is NEVER the case today).

The story, unfortunately, is very stupid--but that's par for the course I guess. The "teenage" daughter of wealthy industrialist (Hart, who actually looks about twenty five) is sleeping her way through the US military ranks. For some reason that's a problem, so they decide to get her out of the country by making her father ambassador to Great Britain. Once there, her father enrolls her in a strict finishing school, but within five minutes she's corrupted her (equally mature and improbably gorgeous) British roommates. She gets them to go skinny-dipping in the school pool and lose their virginity en masse during a coed basketball game (don't ask). The "plot" takes off though when the girls decide to have a "contest" to try to bed some international VIPs visiting London for a world conference, including a Chinese ping-pong champion, a drunken Russian, a Henry Kissinger-like US statesman (if you have always fantasized about seeing Kissinger getting lucky with a "teenage" girl, THIS is your chance), and--even though they don't say exactly whom--somebody in Windsor Castle (perhaps Charles or Andrew, hopefully not Phillip or the Queen herself).

As you might imagine their plans go horribly awry and an international incident is soon brewing. This movie is rarely funny, but it is pretty sexy I guess. It's pretty dumb and I can't rave too much about it, but I don't regret having seen it either.