The Love Box (1972) aka Lovebox
Genre: Softcore |Comedy
Country: UK |Director: Tudor Gates & Wilbur Stark
Language: English |Subtitles: None
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1 |Length: 85mn
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The movie is about a personal column published in fictional London magazine 'This is Your Week', edited by Tris Patterson (Chris Williams), who spends more time feverishly poring over the contact ads and fantasising about what the advertisers are like than actually doing any work. 'It was an idea I'd had about people responding to personal ads,' said the movie's producer Tudor Gates. 'I wanted to call it Looking for Love, because I thought that was far more relevant, but the distributors wanted a sexier angle. I hoped to make an intellectual erotic movie, but of course they weren't interested. We shot it over an absolutely punishing two-week schedule doing a scene a day and we just put lots of sex in it, I suppose.'
And an unashamed sex film it certainly is, with a series of imagined (and mainly nude) happenings occurring in the hotbeds of London's suburbia. The individual stories are illustrated in a series of comedy vignettes very much in the style of Benny Hill, but going for the naked jugular in much the same way as 1969's The Wife Swappers did. Among other things, we have frustrated housewives (led by Jane Cardew), stuck at home eating French fancies, who decide to hire a male prostitute to liven up their coffee mornings. An ancient old man answers an advert for a busty blonde masseuse and tells her 'Some of my limbs I haven't used for years' - but she soon remedies that. A pompous, fat idiot is tricked into appearing in a blue movie and a virgin schoolboy orders a service from an older woman (Maggie Wright) but is so inexperienced he even has to have kissing explained to him.
In addition there's an orgy in a grotty flat in Kilburn involving enormous grilled sausages and some good old wife-swapping where the women dress up in pantomime costumes. Rather oddly, the film eventually careers into a drippy hippy fantasy, where any notion of lasciviousness is replaced with carefree warmth and affection. The magazine's editor is so thrilled with the way the new-style personal ads have revitalised his publication that he dreams of a sexual utopia where men and women run about naked through flower beds, making love and receiving diplomas 'in the art of love'.
The Love Box was directed, produced and scripted by the elusive twosome Billy and Teddy White, who didn't really exist. They were nothing more than pseudonyms for American producer Wilbur Stark (father of Koo) and English playwright Tudor Gates. 'Wilbur decided on the name Billy White early on and so I went with Teddy White. It was a bit of a joke,' said Gates. 'I suppose we used different names just in case the film flopped. There was every chance that the film could come out looking awful, but thankfully it did very well at the box-office. It was a tremendous hit."
The Love Box was directed, produced and scripted by the elusive twosome Billy and Teddy White, who didn't really exist. They were nothing more than pseudonyms for American producer Wilbur Stark (father of Koo) and English playwright Tudor Gates. 'Wilbur decided on the name Billy White early on and so I went with Teddy White. It was a bit of a joke,' said Gates. 'I suppose we used different names just in case the film flopped. There was every chance that the film could come out looking awful, but thankfully it did very well at the box-office. It was a tremendous hit."
Lovebox (1972)
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