''On the Game'' (also known as Sex Through the Ages) is a 1974 British film directed by

Stanley Long Stanley A. Long (26 November 1933 – 10 September 2012) was an English exploitation cinema and sexploitation filmmaker. He was also a driving force behind the VistaScreen stereoscopic (3D) photographic company. He was a writer, cinemato ...

. It was a dramatised documentary about prostitution. The film was researched and written by

Suzanne Mercer Suzanne Mercer (born c.1946) was a British screenwriter who wrote a number of films for Stanley A. Long. She is best known for writing ''Groupie Girl'' (1970), based on her own personal experience. Biography Mercer grew up in Newcastle and was ma ...

. Mercer spent two years researching it.

Cast

*LLoyd Lamble as Gladstone *Gloria Walker as Jenny *Olive McFarland as Mrs Dubery

Production

Mercer said, "Had I lived in 16th century Italy, or in the 1860's in France I probably would have been a courtesan ... I don’t think ''On the Game'' is anti-feminist ... In my view, no woman need be oppressed or repressed. I’m a chick, married for seven years, and I lead an independent life. I work in a very tough business.”

Reception

One critic said the film "covers much the same territory" as Mercer and Long's earlier ''

Naughty! ''Naughty'' is a 1971 British dramatised documentary film directed by Stanley Long.Long said although the movie was sold as a sex film it was "a fairly serious film" which "had some purpose". It mixed interviews with archived footage and re-enact ...

'' "though with rather less humour... the lighting is so poor as to enforce a squint throughout." Another called it "an informative and entertaining film."

References

External links

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