Originally a Box Office hit on the stage in 1971, No Sex Please, We’re British concerns the impact of a sex shop, The Aphrodisia Bookshop, on a suburban high street, where it is flanked by the Christian Reading Room and Barclays Bank.
The plot is simple and farcical – the bank’s chief cashier, Runnicles (Ronnie Corbett), receives the sex shop’s delivery by mistake, and the harder he tries to get rid of it, the more he ends up with.
Meanwhile, bank manager Mr Bromley (Arthur Lowe) – who is also a councillor, Justice of the Peace and the most unyielding anti-porn campaigner – inadvertently screens a blue movie to an audience of bird-watchers (including a rapt vicar) and is eventually ‘recognised’ by two prostitutes as a regular customer.
The main location scenes were filmed in the High Street and surrounding cobbled alleyways of Windsor, as well as the famous Long Walk leading to Windsor Castle itself.
Brian Runnicles
Ronnie Corbett Bertha Hunter
Beryl Reid Leslie Bromley
Arthur Lowe David Hunter
Ian Ogilvy Penny Hunter
Susan Penhaligon Arnold Needham
Michael Bates Daphne Martin
Cheryl Hall Inspector Paul
David Swift Park Keeper
Deryck Guyler Susan
Valerie Leon Barbara
Margaret Nolan Reverend John Mower
Gerald Sim
Director
Cliff Owen
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