Not Tonight Darling [DVD]

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London in the early 70's was in a strange hangover of a place -- vice had been clamped down upon and the new thing were films that were sold as sexy, but were actually nothing of the kind (but hey, they have your money by then). Today this is less sexy than post watershed TV! What she doesn't realise however is that moustachioed shop-assistant Eddie (Sean Barry-Weske) is a peeping tom, and hovers outside her bathroom window at night in the hope of seeing her apply some moisturiser to her arms. Whenever she does appear his binoculars struggle to maintain focus, much like the audience at this point one imagines. As part of the deal, an additional 2 minutes of 'hard-core' shooting were needed close the territorial film rights' sale to the Far East. The acting is cold and wooden, the script is bad, there’s no plot to speak of and the ending is abrupt and unsatisfactory. All in all, the best part of the film is a brief scene featuring the band Thunderclap Newman rehearsing a couple of numbers.

It does not help that we have had to accommodate shifting routines as restrictions change. “Couples may have developed a habit where sex happens on a Wednesday morning when the kids have gone to school, but then the kids were at home,” says Vowels. “Or if kids normally have stuff during the weekend, they don’t have that, because everything is closed, so the opportunities that people had before may not be there.” Frustrated that her career driven barrister husband shows no interest in her a bored housewife has a fling with a skeezy travelling salesman. A rare starring role for the lovely Luan Peters, a regular face,and body,in British horror and sexploitation films of the early 70's. You have to suspend a certain amount of disbelief that ,firstly ,any man could sit in bed reading a book with sexually frustrated Luan lying next to him gazing up suggestively..and secondly that she'd even contemplate a sleazy daytime dalliance with a canned goods salesman who resembles Sid James of 'Carry On' fames younger brother! It's a surprisingly downbeat, 'realistic' film,following Luan's daily routine of dropping her kid to school and stopping by the grocery… This is not meant to denigrate the lady in question or her acting talent but applies accurately to this production. For some people, though, sex may have increased during this period, she says, as a form of stress relief. “It works for them in that way – and that also goes for masturbation habits. For people who find it more difficult to get in the right headspace when they’re stressed, or find it difficult to switch off – which we might do normally on our commute home, or when we go to the gym after work – there’s no escape. We’re parenting, working, relaxing and working out all in the same space.” e) The, shall we say, 'incredible' dream scene in the grocer's shop. Hard to believe and more than a touch of The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band about it (if you recall Magical Mystery Tour).Whilst the picture does have some spots of dirt,Simply Media still give a good transfer,with the outdoor scenes being clear to hear and the girls being pretty. No One Can Take Your Place"/"You Beat Me To The Punch" (Fontana TF517 December 1964) (as Karol Keyes)

No Sex Please, We're British (1973) Originally a Box Office hit on the stage in 1971, No Sex Please, We're British concerns the impact of a sex shop… extra half a point - in fact the whole point - is awarded purely for the surprise of an impromptu thunderclap newman gig in the middle, complete with a very awkward actor having no idea how to "get down" to the moderns) Not Of This Earth (1957) An invader from the distant planet Davanna is sent to Earth to obtain blood for himself and the rest of… A married suburbanite (Luan Peters) enters the world of crime after falling for a shady businessman (Vincent Ball). c) You really have to see the camera-work in the health club scenes to believe it. The young lady on the vibrator belt especially.b) Captain Harrison (Bill Shine) may not be on screen for long but he does have the best lines. ("He called me Bill. Well, it was my name) The most laughable aspect is the actor Vince Ball, an aging Australian actor who must be years older than all the girls who describe him as 'gorgeous ' . I think he must of been a friend of somebody and probably paid them to get next to Ms Peters ! Like all these films it is more interesting to take note of the fashions, scenery, attitudes of the 70's rather than follow the plot . Peters is known for her appearances in Hammer horror films of the 1970s such as Lust for a Vampire (1971) and Twins of Evil (1971). Other film credits include Man of Violence (1969), Freelance (1971), Not Tonight, Darling (1971), The Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Vampira (1974), Land of the Minotaur (1976), The Wildcats of St Trinian's (1980) and Pacific Banana (1981). Apart from some location photography, Luan Peters is the only redeemable feature. She actually brings a degree of believability and emotion to her performance. Sadly, she's let down by the overall tepidness around her; I often wondered, given her popularity throughout the decade, she never reached the same cult status as Ingrid Pitt, Madeleine Smith or Caroline Munro when it was possiblly within her wherewithal; the moral here, maybe, is that favours can rebound. Luan Peters Has A Love Countdown". The Reprobate. 11 June 2018. Archived from the original on 17 August 2018 . Retrieved 31 August 2018.