Rent Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the masters and the servants are prepared to co-operate in trying to find some cash - after all, most of them are enjoying liaisons of one kind or another among themselves, and none have any desire to give up their rewarding way of life...
- Actors:
- Jack Wild, Mark Singleton, Sue Longhurst, Olivia Munday, Diana Dors, John Blythe, Seretta Wilson, William Rushton, Peter Halliday, Craig Marriott, Julian Orchard, Aimi Macdonald, Carmen Silvera, Nigel Pegram, April Olrich, Neil Hallett, Françoise Pascal, Simon Brent, Tony Kenyon, Joan Newell
- Directors:
- Robert Young
- Producers:
- Hazel Adair
- Writers:
- Hazel Adair
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 2
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 10/08/2020
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0, English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
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Reviews (1) of Keep It Up Downstairs
SEXY GIRLS; DIRE COMEDY - Keep It Up Downstairs review by Frank Talker™
A desperately unfunny film featuring some very sexy women and classy actors wasted in an underwritten story set in an English country-house.
The production values and the costuming are excellent for such a low-budget movie, but these do not adequately compensate for cringe-making and vapid humour. There are absolutely no valid statements to be made about human sexuality in this British sex-comedy despite its claim to being a sex comedy.
All that the audience gets instead is a White culture of sexual repression, male insecurities & the inevitably-resulting sexual desperation - especially among the largely-unsatisfied women. To make things worse, the film insults its audience by treating them as if they were also just as love-starved.
There is no real sense here that sex is a means to an end - just an end in itself - since all of the characters are either scared of sex or see it as something you get from someone else rather than something that you share with them. And where's the fun in that?