No Sex Please: We're British | |
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Directed by | Cliff Owen |
Produced by | John R. Sloan |
Written by | Alistair Foot Anthony Marriott (play) Brian Cooke Johnnie Mortimer (adaptation) |
Starring |
Ronnie Corbett Ian Ogilvy Susan Penhaligon Beryl Reid Arthur Lowe |
Music by | Eric Rogers |
Cinematography | Ken Hodges |
Edited by | Ralph Kemplen |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date
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25 July 1973 (UK) 10 August 1979 (USA) |
Running time
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91 min. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
No Sex Please, We're British is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Ronnie Corbett, Ian Ogilvy, Susan Penhaligon and Arthur Lowe. It is based on the 1971 play No Sex Please, We're British with a number of changes to the original plot.
Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of Barclays Bank in Windsor High Street), is horrified when a package arrives containing pornography rather than the new calculator he expected. His efforts to dispose of it, while avoiding detection, turn into a farcical series of events involving a bank inspector, the police and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs.