Come Back Peter
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Directed by | Donovan Winter |
Written by | Donovan Winter |
Produced by | Donovan Winter |
Starring | Christopher Matthews |
Cinematography | Gus Coma Ian D. Struthers |
Edited by | Donovan Winter |
Production company | Donwin Productions |
Distributed by | Richard Schulman Entertainments |
Release date | 1969 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Come Back Peter is a 1969 British sex comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Donovan Winter. It was released in the UK under the title Some Like It Sexy.[1]
Plot[]
A young Londoner called Peter (Christopher Matthews) has sexual encounters with a string of women including an au pair, a model, a high-class lady, a blues singer, a hippie, incestuous twins and a girl next door from The Salvation Army. At the end of the film, Peter is revealed to be a butcher's assistant entertaining sexual fantasies.
Cast[]
- Christopher Matthews as Peter
- Erika Bergmann as Lisa (au pair)
- Penny Riley as Sue (model)
- Yolande Turner as Mrs Beaufort-Smith
- Madeline Smith as Mrs Beaufort-Smith's daughter
- Valerie St. Helene as Cleo (blues singer)
- Annabel Leventon as Creampuff (hippie)
- Nicola Pagett as Jenny (Salvation Army girl)
- Madeleine and Mary Collinson as Twins
Critical response[]
The film was negatively received by Derek Malcolm of The Guardian and Nina Hibbin of the Morning Star.[2]
Calling the film "charmless and flashy", Nigel Andrews of The Monthly Film Bulletin criticised its "monotony" of presentation and the "vulgar tedium" of the protagonist's sexual encounters.[3]
References[]
- ^ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books, 2011, p. 63-64.
- ^ "Eight Critics on the Month's Films". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 38 no. 446. British Film Institute. March 1971.
- ^ "Come Back Peter". The Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 38 no. 446. British Film Institute. March 1971. pp. 46–47.
External links[]
- English-language films
- 1969 films
- 1969 comedy films
- 1960s sex comedy films
- British films
- British sex comedy films
- Films set in London
- 1960s British film stubs