For Men Only, also known as I Like Birds, is a 1967 British short sex comedy film written, produced and directed by Pete Walker. It was his debut production.[1][2][3]
| For Men Only | |
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| Directed by | Pete Walker |
| Written by | Pete Walker |
| Produced by | Pete Walker |
| Starring | David Kernan Andrea Allen Derek Aylward |
| Cinematography | Gerry Lewis |
| Edited by | Peter Austen-Hunt |
| Music by | Harry South |
Production company | Pete Walker-Border |
| Distributed by | Border Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 38 minutes |
| Country | UK |
| Language | English |
Plot
editFreddie Horne loves his job working for a trendy women's fashion magazine, but his pretty blonde fiancée is getting jealous. To smooth things over Freddie takes a job with the Puritan Magazine Group, an organisation hell-bent on promoting moral reform and "family values". However, the caddish chief executive Miles Fanthorpe is not all he seems. Fanthorpe's East Grinstead country house is actually full of scantily-clad young women, and he is secretly publishing a girlie magazine.
Cast
edit- David Kernan as Freddie Horne
- Andrea Allen as Rosalie
- Derek Aylward as Miles Fanthorpe
- Tom Gill as father
- Neville Whiting as Claude
- Mai Bacon as mother
- Glyn Worsnip as Rudolph
- Joan Ingram as Esther
- John Cazabon as Lamphrey Gussett
- Apple Brook as receptionist
- Gladys Dawson as Mrs. Whitely
Critical reception
editMonthly Film Bulletin said "The permissive society is obviously making it more difficult to produce a prurient film. To convince us that there's something naughty about photographing girls in bikinis, this one resorts to the improbable device of creating a mild pornographer whose primary concern is to safeguard his reputation among East Grinstead churchgoers. And although none of its cast remains fully dressed throughout, its hero is just old-fashioned enough to marry the one girl who loses her clothes by accident rather than by design. Not that the film is provocative – merely embarrassing. And its crude scripting means that its elaborate car chase is entirely unmotivated."[4]
References
edit- ^ "For Men Only". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
- ^ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 54
- ^ "'God, what a terrible film'"by Will Hodgkinson, The Guardian 11 March 2005 accessed 15 November 2014
- ^ "For Men Only". Monthly Film Bulletin. 34 (396): 190. 1967 – via ProQuest.
External links
edit- For Men Only at IMDb