Come Play with Me (1977)

A health-resort where both the clients and the employees easily take their clothes off and have a little fun is the setting of this sex-comedy.

Director:

George Harrison Marks

Writer:

George Harrison Marks

Stars:

Irene Handl, Alfie Bass, George Harrison Marks

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Irene Handl	...	Lady Bovington
Alfie Bass	...	Kelly
George Harrison Marks	...	Cornelius Clapworthy / Clapworthy
Ronald Fraser	...	Slasher
Ken Parry	...	Podsnap
Toni Harrison Marks	...	Miss Dingle
Tommy Godfrey	...	Blitt
Bob Todd	...	Vicar
Rita Webb	...	Madam Rita
Cardew Robinson	...	McIvor
Sue Longhurst	...	Christina
Henry McGee	...	Deputy Prime Minister
Norman Vaughan	...	Stage Performer
Michael Logan	...	Minister
Talfryn Thomas	...	Nosegay

Storyline

A health-resort where both the clients and the employees easily take their clothes off and have a litte fun is the setting of this hugely popular sex-comedy.

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Plot Keywords:

hot | sex scene | sexy | sexploitation | softcore | 

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Taglines:

Entertainingly funny and blushingly saucy.

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 April 1977 (UK)

Also Known As:

David Sullivan's Come Play with Me

Filming Locations:

Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

GBP85,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Roldvale

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Opening credits: All characters and events in this film are entirely fictitious Any similarity to actual events or persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

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Goofs

The end credits mix-up Anna Bergman and Pat Astley, transposing the character names by which they were referred to in the dialogue. Also Astley is shown as "Pat Ashley"

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Alternate Versions

Hardcore versions of four of the film's sex scenes were shot for the overseas market. It is believed that the hardcore version was never exhibited commercially and may now be lost.

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Connections

Featured in Sex in the 70s: Blue Movies (2005)

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Soundtracks

Come Play With Me
By Peter Jeffries
Original Score Sung by The Group 'Coming Shortly'

User Reviews

A typical British sex comedy - no laughs and hardly any sex!

This movie - which amazingly was a box office smash in the UK in the late 70s and early 80s (it ran non-stop between 1977 and 1981 in London's West End) - embodies everything that was bad about British so-called `sex films' of the era - namely a lame and tedious plot, a second-rate cast of comedy has-beens and never-were's, poor acting and very little actual sex and nudity. A version of the film containing very steamy and explicit sex scenes was actually shot, but in the puritanical climate of late-70s Britain with its notoriously restrictive anti-porn legislation sometimes known as the `Limp Dick Laws' (and sadly things haven't really changed much in the intervening 20-odd years), this was deemed unacceptable for screening to UK cinema audiences and never saw the light of day (no sex please – we're British!!). Instead, the only version of this movie that has ever been released is this sorry excuse for a film, which concentrates more on the pathetic, supposedly `funny' antics of a group of elderly crooks and the septugenarian matron at a health spa, being brightened up only occasionally by stocking-clad beauties portraying nurses. These girls are the film's only redeeming feature and indeed they should have been what the movie was all about. Instead, the few (I think there are about 4) short `sex' scenes have been so brutally edited that they come to a sudden, grinding halt just as things are getting warmed up, and we're back to the silly goings-on involving the `comedy' characters. And silly they truly are. It's almost painful to watch sometimes, encapsulting stupid, slapstick `mucky postcard'-style antics in the very worst traditions of the equally lamentable `Confessions' and `Carry On' movie series of the same era. The publicity blurb surrounding the movie at the time of its release claimed that it was `entertainingly funny and blushingly saucy', `fantastically erotic', `the sexiest sex comedy screened' and `of a highly explicit nature'. The makers should have been hauled before the courts on charges of multiple violations of the Trade Descriptions Act, because it is nothing of the sort. According to a recently published book about one of the film's more glamorous stars, the late and sadly missed Mary Millington, only one print of the uncut and unseen version is known to still exist, which is a pity. It's perhaps being a little optimistic to hope that this will one day appear on DVD as a more fitting testimony to the Mary Millington legacy.