Surgeon Emmanuel Whitbread (Denholm Elliott) believes he has perfected pioneering penis-transplant surgery but he needs a patient or two (a recipient and a donor).
Meanwhile, antique dealer Edwin Anthony (Hywel Bennett) is on his way to deliver a pricey cut-glass chandelier to an obnoxious American customer.
Several floors above him, a young man is disturbed in flagrante delicto with a married woman.
He has just one escape route – onto her balcony. “But darling . . .” his paramour murmurs as he clambers out of the window, “we don’t have a balcony”.
The luckless lover and his unexpected soft landing are rushed to the hospital. One is dead, the other will probably wish he were. But the doctor is delighted. He has his patients.
Young Edwin – now twice the man he used to be – nicknames his new acquisition “Percy” and becomes determined to find out the identity of the donor by interviewing the bereaved friends of the deceased chap.
He also sets about reacquainting his new “friend” with all the other women it had known – including Adrienne Posta, Britt Ekland, Tracy Reed, Julia Foster and Elke Sommer. Phallic gags abound.
Finally, he finds the woman he is seeking, Moira Warrington (the lovely Cyd Hayman).
Director Ralph Thomas made his name with the Doctor series of comedies, but you can bet your scalpel that Sir Lancelot Spratt wouldn’t have touched the operation in this film célèbre with a ten-foot pole.
No wonder Hywel Bennett refused the equally dreadful sequel, Percy’s Progress(1974).
Edwin Anthony
Hywel Bennett Emmanuel Whitbread
Denholm Elliott Helga
Elke Sommer Dorothy Chiltern-Barlow
Britt Ekland Moira Warrington
Cyd Hayman Hazel
Janet Key Miss Elder
Tracey Crisp Rita La Rousse
Antonia Ellis Mrs Penney
Tracy Reed James Vaile
Patrick Mower Sister Flanagan
Pauline Delany Maggie Hyde
Adrienne Posta Marilyn
Julia Foster
Director
Ralph Thomas
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No wonder Hywel Bennett refused the equally dreadful sequel, Percy’s Progress (1974).
Moira Warrington
