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Not Tonight Darling [DVD]

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This one looks quite handsome, with established director of photography Waxman (Waterfront, I Thank A Fool) on board, as a favor to the then young crew. By the standards which must apply, it met the needs. The women are presentable. The dialogue is audible and the plot can be followed without any effort - enough for the demands of the British skin flic. 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). I liked the gym club sequence near the end where Ms Peters is in virginal white-verily the covered body stimulates more the imagination!

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.

So a specialist troupe were flown in from New York for the scene and they proved well able to match the director's stringent requirements. Although it sounds mechanical and unsexy, we should schedule intimate time. “We know that responsive desire is triggered, so what we often have to do is create the opportunity to trigger it, rather than just sitting and waiting for desire to spontaneously occur,” says Moyle. “We have this idea that relationships and sex lives just happen and that we shouldn’t have to intentionally nurture them, but that isn’t the case. We do it with everything else in our lives; why wouldn’t we do it with sex and relationships?” Luan Peters (11 June 1946 – 24 December 2017), also known as Karol Keyes, was an English actress and singer.

Luan Peters does not give a good performance as Karen, the lonely woman who is not happy with her husband and just wants something to happen with her life. 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.Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening Link to Weekend Box Office Results: Five Nights at Freddy’s Scores Monster Opening

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. a) If you ever wondered what a seedy Soho strip club looked like in the daytime, this is for you. And what about that compere? ("Okay, remove your raincoats") 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 .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… Anthony Sloman directs this erotic drama starring Luan Peters as Karen, a beautiful and intelligent housewife, but is tired of her solicitor spouse and her empty, suburban lifestyle. She is lonely and wants something more. This is not meant to denigrate the lady in question or her acting talent but applies accurately to this production. Karen is a “stay-at-home” housewife who is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend. She eventually finds out and gets her revenge on them. The new freeview channel Talking Pictures TV, an offshoot of the Renown DVD label, have acquired the catalogues of several small British distributors, including the titles owned by Adrienne Fancey. This has meant that I've kept an eye on the channel over the last couple of months. They have been screening long-forgotten films that the Fanceys produced and distributed as well as an assortment of other rare and often unmemorable movies. Amongst these have been some British sex comedies and dramas from the 1970s, a bleak period in our nation's film history when actors were forced into drab, badly written movies for the entertainment of raincoat-wearing audiences. These movies were generally always profitable and therefore producers would rather make them than take a risk on something more wholesome or artistic. I am sure that when people like Luan Peters were taking their clothes off in grubby, brown bedrooms, they had little idea that the films would still be playing to audiences some forty years later.

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