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Games That Lovers Play (film)

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Games That Lovers Play
Promotional poster
Directed byMalcolm Leigh
Written byMalcolm Leigh
Produced byJudith Smith
StarringJoanna Lumley
Penny Brahms
Richard Wattis
CinematographyKen Higgins
Edited byPeter Austen-Hunt
Music byDavid Lindup
Production
company
Border Film Productions
Release date
  • 14 March 1971 (1971-03-14)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Games That Lovers Play (U.S. titles: Lady Chatterley Versus Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley vs Fanny Hill) is a 1971 British softcore comedy film written and directed by Malcolm Leigh and starring Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms and Richard Wattis.[1][2]

The US title and the names of the female lead characters reference the 1748 erotic novel Fanny Hill and D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which had been the subject of a celebrated obscenity trial in 1960.[2] The film's plot is unrelated to either novel.[3]

Cast

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Production

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In 2018, Joanna Lumley revealed she felt pressured to strip for this movie.[4]

Critical reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Hardly a plea for sexual tolerance, this lightweight sex comedy derives its humour largely from double entendre and sexual deviations, notably transvestism. On the premise that if one man in drag is funny then forty will be hilarious, a Drag Ball is staged – to the detriment of Jeremy Lloyd who, unlike the other guests (played by authentic drag queens) merely looks like a man dressed up as a woman and can do nothing with a part that makes him a prude as well as a lecher.  ...The sense of period, conscientiously attempted by means of every style of decor from antique to art nouveau, is broken by the contemporary look of the actors which adds a final veneer of unreality to an already vacuous story."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Games That Lovers Play". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Games That Lovers Play". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  3. ^ Cunliffe, Mark. "Games That Lovers Play". Letterboxd. Retrieved 16 February 2023.[self-published source]
  4. ^ "Joanna Lumley: 'In my day you had to take your top off to be a serious actress'". www.mirror.co.uk. 17 February 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Games That Lovers Play". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 38 (444): 48. 1 January 1971. ProQuest 1305831443 – via ProQuest.
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