Let's Get Laid (1978)

A soldier returning from World War II gets mixed up in a series of murders and mistaken identies regarding a cigarette lighter than affects all electric power.

Director:

James Kenelm Clarke

Writers:

Sam Cree (play), Michael Robson

Stars:

Fiona Richmond, Robin Askwith, Anthony Steel

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Fiona Richmond	...	Maxine Lupercal
Robin Askwith	...	Gordon Laid / Jimsy Deveroo
Anthony Steel	...	Moncrieff Dovecraft
Graham Stark	...	Inspector Nugent
Linda Hayden	...	Gloria
Roland Curram	...	Rupert Dorchester
Tony Haygarth	...	Sgt. Costello
Murray Salem	...	Heavy
Ted Burnett	...	Heavy
Richard Manuel	...	Fenton Umfreville
Charles Pemberton	...	PC Baxter
Shaun Curry	...	Greenleaf
Fanny Carby	...	Lady in Phone Booth
Patrick Holt	...	The Commissioner
Peter Cartwright	...	Film Director

Storyline

A demobbed soldier, Gordon Laid, returning from World War II meets Maxine Lupercal, a member of a traveling troupe of actors returning to England on the same ship. As Gordon closely resembles a member of the troupe of actors, mistaken identity causes him to become embroiled in various murders and an international espionage plot involving a cigarette lighter that strangely affects electricity. The action reaches its comical climax on stage with Gordon and his double as the spies and the police converge on the theatre is a desperate attempt to retrieve the missing cigarette lighter.

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Plot Keywords:

sex comedy | espionage | sex scene | shower | sex | 

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Taglines:

Gordon Laid is getting stuck in some very tight places...

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Genres:

Comedy

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Certificate:

R

Did You Know?

Trivia

The original play ran at the Windmill Theatre, London, in 1974. As well as Fiona Richmond, it also starred John Inman, Jack Haig, Jenny Kenna, Terry Denton, Kevin Sheehan, Andrea Godfrey, and Kate Harper,

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Soundtracks

You Turn My Legs to Water
Music by Steve Gray
Lyrics by Michael Robson

User Reviews

Somewhat lame 70's British sex flick

It's 1947. A young man (Robin Askwith) has just been discharged from the army. He is given the keys to a luxury apartment (for reasons that eluded me), but on his first night there he gets involved with a famous actress (Fiona Richmond) who lives next door and who has just killed a man. He helps her dispose of the body, but he accidentally pockets the man's cigarette lighter, which gets him involved in a whole ridiculous post-war spy plot. But the whole thing is periodically broken up by song-and-dance musical fantasy sequences involving Richmond, usually sans most of her clothing.

These UK sex comedies are a strictly British phenomenon and well before my time, but I've read a couple books about them by Simon Sheridan. Apparently, their primary audience was the same type of guys in raincoats that were attending hardcore porn movies across the pond in America in the 70's (and if you don't know why they were wearing raincoats, you probably don't want to). Anyway, it's amazing to me how these guys could "do their thing" to a movie like this, given how much plot there is to get in the way of the sex scenes and how comparatively tame the said sex scenes are. But I actually kind of like these movies far more than tedious hardcore American stroke-fodder (and certainly more than any modern-day stroke-fodder) because, inept as some of them are, they are at least REAL movies.

Robin Askwith (who I think was separated at birth from Mick Jagger) is mostly famous for the "Confessions of" series, which is much funnier (and sexier) than this movie. Askwith is really playing against type here as an uptight guy who's not particularly successful with women. Like the director's previous effort "Expose" (a VERY different movie), this features both Fiona Richmond and Linda Hayden, but Richmond here has the lead role while Hayden is largely wasted. I find Hayden more attractive than Richmond and there's NO DOUBT she was a far better actress. Richmond isn't bad though--she could certainly pull off this kind of very broad, intentional camp (this is apparently loosely based on a theatrical revue she had been doing). She has a great body (which you get to see a lot of), but with her clothes on she kind of looks like a female impersonator (albeit a very good one). She's better than she was in "Expose" (but "Expose"is a much better movie). I simply don't understand, however, the strange 70's trend of combining softcore/nudie flicks (which appeal to straight men) and musicals (which appeal more to women and gays). Oh, well. I wouldn't personally recommend this, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeing it for themselves either.

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

May 1978 (UK)

Also Known As:

Love Trap

Filming Locations:

Channel Islands

Company Credits

Production Co:

Norfolk International Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color