The Bunny Caper (1974) Sex Play (original title)

Director:

Jack Arnold

Writers:

Peer J. Oppenheimer (screenplay) &
Jameson Brewer (screenplay)

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
Oliver Gilbert	...	Young Lieutenant U.S. Army
Harry Towb	...	Four Star General
Glenn Beck	...	General's Aide
Peter Forbes-Robertson	...	Newscaster
Rex Wei	...	Chen Ling
Ric Young	...	Wang Lo (as Eric Young)
Steve Plytas	...	Krashneff
Milos Kirek	...	Krashneff's Interpreter
Gordon Sterne	...	Randolph O'Hara
David Beale	...	Lord Teakwood
Myvanwy Jenn	...	Judith Carter
Eunice Black	...	Miss Grimm
Sarah Brackett	...	Harriet Best
Drina Pavlovic	...	Sal
Jane Anthony	...	Jackie
Jill Damas	...	Chris
Irene Peters	...	Melinda
Bobby Sparrow	...	Pretty Girl
Caroline Whitaker	...	Agnes Crutcher
Erin Geraghty	...	Ducky
Roy Evans	...	Hotel Clerk
James Snell	...	1st Guardsman
Fred Haggerty	...	2nd Guardsman
Roger Tallon	...	Krashneff's Chauffeur
Murray Kash	...	Doctor Wolfgang Meyer
Ed Bishop	...	Stuart Beard
Nicholas Leahey	...	Policeman
Nadim Sawalha	...	Abdur

Directed by
Jack Arnold

Writing credits
Peer J. Oppenheimer		(screenplay) &
Jameson Brewer		(screenplay)

Produced by
Peer J. Oppenheimer	....	producer

Original Music by
John Cameron

Cinematography by
Alan Hume		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Don Deacon

Art Direction by
William Alexander		(as Bill Alexander)

Makeup Department
Anne McFadyen	....	hair stylist
Stella Morris	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Sydney Streeter	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Derek Whitehurst	....	assistant director

Art Department
Dennis Maddison	....	production buyer

Sound Department
Ken Scrivener	....	sound recordist
Jim Shields	....	sound editor (as James Shields G.B.F.E.)
Jim Willis	....	sound recordist

Camera and Electrical Department
Albert Clarke	....	still photographer
Godfrey A. Godar	....	camera operator (as Godfrey Godar)
Slim MacDonnell	....	underwater photographer

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Marina Drecker	....	wardrobe mistress

Music Department
John Cameron	....	conductor

Other crew
Malcolm R. Burgess	....	production accountant

Production Companies

• Elite Syndicate (as Elite Syncopations Limited)
• General Continental

Distributors

• Atlantic (1974) (UK) (theatrical)
• General Film Corporation (1975) (USA) (theatrical)
• Dark Sky Films (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Ambassador Film Distributors (Canada) (as "Games Girls Play")

Also Known As:

"Sex Play" - UK (original title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

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

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.