Spanish Fly (1976)
Country: GB/CAN/SP
Technical: Technicolor 86m
Director: Bob Kellett
Cast: Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska, Sue Lloyd
Synopsis:
An indebted British expat in Menorca purchases hundreds of gallons of Spanish plonk to sell as an upmarket French wine. However, it is so awful he can do nothing with it, until his chauffeur accidentally adds some Spanish flies with herbs to improve the flavour. Furthermore that is not the only effect, as his sexually impotent old school chum discovers when he turns up conducting a glam photo shoot.
Review:
Believe it or not, Spanish Fly is reputed to possess aphrodisiac properties, along with some nastier ones, and there is a whole sub-genre of movies devoted to it! For me, however, it is a wonderfully apt own-goal of a metaphor for the film: add some sexy models to a tired old nudge-nudge comedy and people will pay to see it. Phillips and Terry-Thomas of course conduct themselves like old pros, but Armitage gets all the best moments as the put-upon major-domo. Technical credits, though, are mediocre indeed, par for the course for a seventies sex comedy.
Country: GB/CAN/SP
Technical: Technicolor 86m
Director: Bob Kellett
Cast: Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska, Sue Lloyd
Synopsis:
An indebted British expat in Menorca purchases hundreds of gallons of Spanish plonk to sell as an upmarket French wine. However, it is so awful he can do nothing with it, until his chauffeur accidentally adds some Spanish flies with herbs to improve the flavour. Furthermore that is not the only effect, as his sexually impotent old school chum discovers when he turns up conducting a glam photo shoot.
Review:
Believe it or not, Spanish Fly is reputed to possess aphrodisiac properties, along with some nastier ones, and there is a whole sub-genre of movies devoted to it! For me, however, it is a wonderfully apt own-goal of a metaphor for the film: add some sexy models to a tired old nudge-nudge comedy and people will pay to see it. Phillips and Terry-Thomas of course conduct themselves like old pros, but Armitage gets all the best moments as the put-upon major-domo. Technical credits, though, are mediocre indeed, par for the course for a seventies sex comedy.
Country: GB/CAN/SP
Technical: Technicolor 86m
Director: Bob Kellett
Cast: Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Nadiuska, Sue Lloyd
Synopsis:
An indebted British expat in Menorca purchases hundreds of gallons of Spanish plonk to sell as an upmarket French wine. However, it is so awful he can do nothing with it, until his chauffeur accidentally adds some Spanish flies with herbs to improve the flavour. Furthermore that is not the only effect, as his sexually impotent old school chum discovers when he turns up conducting a glam photo shoot.
Review:
Believe it or not, Spanish Fly is reputed to possess aphrodisiac properties, along with some nastier ones, and there is a whole sub-genre of movies devoted to it! For me, however, it is a wonderfully apt own-goal of a metaphor for the film: add some sexy models to a tired old nudge-nudge comedy and people will pay to see it. Phillips and Terry-Thomas of course conduct themselves like old pros, but Armitage gets all the best moments as the put-upon major-domo. Technical credits, though, are mediocre indeed, par for the course for a seventies sex comedy.