Thursday, December 2, 2021

'Not Tonight, Darling!' (1971) - Anthony Sloman.

 Luan Peters, that ubiquitous, deliciously top-heavy, titanically titillating, honey-hipped 70s starlet, is amusingly cast in director, Anthony Sloman's forgotten suburban smut-a-rama. Perky Peters plays the maudlin, terminally housebound Mrs. Williams, long-suffering, consistently nookie-craving wife of her morbidly sexless hubby (Jason Twelvetrees). A splendidly bizarre 'comedy' wherein, Karen (Luan Peters) morosely goes through her monotonous day-to-day routine, consisting primarily of unnecessarily frequent purchases of toothpaste, hilariously obtuse exchanges with local shopkeeper Mr. Finlay(James Hayter), being letched at by the ratty-moustachioed assistant (Sean Barry-Weske), and a gossipy café Klatch with her equally scrumptious girlfriend. 

Our erotically needful wife's dully repetitive, frustratingly chaste life is initially enlivened by smooth operator, Alex (Vincent Ball). Not too long thereafter, the voluptuous, Karen is sinisterly smarmed by this sleazy, serially shunting salesman. Their tentative fling descends darkly into a murky milieu of garishly garbed, Hep-Cat Hippie serial swingers, furtively filming cameras, overzealously frugging striptease artistes, and Alex's altogether sordid Super 8 machinations. While Sloman's sporadically smutty 'Not Tonight, Darling!' is far from the breast of British Sinema, even a little gauche, this gaudy gander at the pulchritudinous perfection of long-legged beauty, Luan Peters remains a jug-jigglingly joyful panoply of downbeat 70s nostalgia!

 








 


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