Keep It Up Downstairs | |
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Directed by | Robert Young |
Written by | Hazel Adair |
Produced by | Hazel Adair Mark Forstater |
Starring |
Diana Dors Jack Wild William Rushton |
Cinematography | Alan Pudney |
Edited by | Mike Campbell |
Music by | Michael Nyman |
Production company | Pyramid Films |
Distributed by | Thorn EMI |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Keep It Up Downstairs (also known as Can You Keep It Up Downstairs? and My Favorite Butler), is a 1976 British period sex comedy film, directed by Robert Young and starring Diana Dors, Jack Wild and William Rushton. [1]
The film follows the adventures of the sex-crazed inhabitants of the bankrupt Cockshute Castle in 1904, and the attempts of Lord and Lady Cockshute to find a rich wife for their uninterested inventor son Peregrine.
It was shot at Elstree Studios and on location at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. A version exists with hardcore inserts; these were shot with body doubles for the main stars. [2]
The score was by Michael Nyman, his first for a commercially released film.
Monthly Film Bulletin said "A joyless 'romp' that is soporifically heavy-handed with its phallic imagery and double meanings (endless references to "big ones" and "getting it off"), Keep It Up Downstairs bungles the tempting possibility of a ribald melange of Upstairs Downstairs and The Go-Between [1971] school of sensitive historical drama. The cast, required to bare breasts and buttocks at regular intervals, is able to make no headway against the inane script and consistently mistimed direction." [3]