Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman, also known as Naughty Wives, is a 1973 sex comedy film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Brendan Price and Sue Longhurst.[1]
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| Directed by | Wolf Rilla |
| Written by | Joseph McGrath Denis Norden |
| Produced by | David Grant |
| Starring | Brendan Price Sue Longhurst Felicity Devonshire Victoria Burgoyne Graham Stark |
| Music by | John Shakespeare |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot
editA young man who gets a job as a vacuum salesman and finds that he has to fight off advances from female customers.
Cast
edit- Brendan Price as David Clyde
- Sue Longhurst as Penny
- Felicity Devonshire as Susanne
- Victoria Burgoyne as Sally Cockburn
- Graham Stark as Charlie Vincent
- Chic Murray as policeman
- Bernard Spear as Jake Tripper
- Jean Harrington as Martina
- Steve Patterson as Anthony Clyde
- Jacqueline Logan as Mrs. Donovan
- Elizabeth Romilly as Nancy
- Jan Servais as Jane
- Jacqueline Afrique as Rachel
- Johnny Briggs as Loman
- Karen Boyes as Girlfriend
- David Rayner as Bruce, the art director
- Ron Alexander as Ron, the assistant
- Noelle Finch as Edith Simons, the reporter
Critical reception
editThe Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Despite the promise of its credits Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman is a sex comedy which achieves the dual feat of being neither erotic nor funny in charting the progress of an innocent abroad in London. Joe McGrath's script lurches from one clichéd situation to another, and leans heavily for its humour on double entendres (really scraping the barrel when plodding through all the possible sexual innuendo to be wrung from the action of a vacuum cleaner), while any gags exhibiting signs of life are swiftly crushed by the actors who with the exception of guest stars Graham Stark and Chic Murray appear to have been selected less for comic talent than for a willingness to remove their clothes at regular intervals. Altogether, the film marks an inauspicious return to feature films by Wolf Rilla, and it is difficult to believe that this feeble romp was directed by the same man who made the imaginative Village of the Damned [1960]."[2]
References
edit- ^ "Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
- ^ "Erotic Inferno". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 40 (468): 213. 1 January 1973 – via ProQuest.
External links
edit- Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman at IMDb
- Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman at ReelStreets (then-and-now location photographs)
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