Keep It Up Downstairs

Keep It Up Downstairs
Keep It Up Downstairs
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	29 July 1976
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]

Plot

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.

Cast

Diana Dors as Daisy Dureneck
Jack Wild as Peregrine Cockshute
William Rushton as Snotty Shuttleworth
Aimi MacDonald as Christabelle St. Clair
Françoise Pascal as Mimi
Neil Hallett as Percy Hampton
Mark Singleton as Lord Cockshute
Julian Orchard as Bishop
Simon Brent as Rogers
Sue Longhurst as Lady Cockshute
John Blythe as Francis Dureneck
Carmen Silvera as Lady Bottomley
Seretta Wilson
as Betsy-Ann Dureneck
Anthony Kenyon as Mellons
Olivia Munday as Lady Kitty Cockshute
April Olrich as Duchess
Sally Harrison as Maud
Mary Millington as Polly

Production

It was shot at

body doubles for the main stars.^[2]

Music

The score was by Michael Nyman, his first for a commercially released film.

Critical response

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]

References

^ "Keep It Up Downstairs". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd
Monthly Film Bulletin
. 43 (504): 102. 1976 – via ProQuest.

External links

Keep It Up Downstairs at
IMDb

Keep It Up Downstairs then-and-now location photographs at ReelStreets

Keep It Up Downstairs at BFI

Keep It Up Downstairs at Letterbox DVD

Keep It Up Downstairs at
TCMDB

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Films directed by Robert Young

Vampire Circus (1972)

Romance with a Double Bass (1974)

Keep It Up Downstairs (1976)

Soldier's Home (1977)

The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)

The Worst Witch (1986)

G.B.H. (1991)

Splitting Heirs (1993)

Doomsday Gun (1994)

Fierce Creatures (1997)

Jane Eyre (1997)

Captain Jack (1999)

Eichmann (2007)

Blood Monkey (2007)

Wide Blue Yonder (2010)

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[BFIsearch-1] "Keep It Up Downstairs". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[2] Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd

[3] Monthly Film Bulletin
. 43 (504): 102. 1976 – via ProQuest.

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