''School for Sex'' is a 1969 British

sex comedy Sex comedy, erotic comedy or more broadly sexual comedy is a genre in which comedy is motivated by sexual situations and love affairs. Although "sex comedy" is primarily a description of dramatic forms such as theatre and film, literary works such ...

film directed, produced and written by Pete Walker.

Cast

* Derek Aylward as Giles Wingate *

Rose Alba Rose Alba (born Felicity Mary Devereux; 5 February 19182 December 2005) was an Egyptian-born British film actress. She also acted in TV series, such as ''The Persuaders! ''The Persuaders!'' is an action-comedy series starring Tony Curtis ...

as Duchess of Burwash * Bob Andrews as Sgt. Braithwaite *

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as Horace Clapp *

Hugh Latimer Hugh Latimer ( – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the s ...

as Berridge *

Nosher Powell George Frederick Bernard Powell (15 August 1928 – 20 April 2013), credited as Nosher Powell, Freddie Powell, or Fred Powell, was an English actor, stuntman and boxer. He is best known for his work in the ''James Bond'' film series, most ...

as Hector * Amber Dean Smith as Beth Villiers *

Françoise Pascal Françoise Pascal (born 14 October 1949) is a British actress, singer, dancer, fashion model, and producer born in Mauritius to French parents. She appeared in numerous film and television productions in her peak throughout the late 1960s to ea ...

as Sally Reagan * Cathy Howard as Sue Randall * Sylvia Barlow as Judy Arkwright * Sandra Gleeson as Jenny * Maria Frost as Polly * Cindy Neal as Marianne *

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as striptease artist * Jackie Berdet as Ingeborg * Nicole Austen as Tania * Edgar K. Bruce as Fred *

Robert Dorning Robert Dorning (13 May 1913 – 21 February 1989) was a musician, dance band vocalist, ballet dancer and stage, film and television actor. He is known to have performed in at least 77 television and film productions between 1940 and 1988. Origin ...

as Civil Sergeant * Julie May as Ethel *

Alec Bregonzi Alec Bregonzi (21 April 1930, London – 4 June 2006) was an England, English actor who appeared in a number of stage and television roles. Bregonzi began his career as a professional actor in 1955 in repertory theatre in Farnham, then in Yo ...

as Harry *

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as Judge * Dennis Castle as Colonel Roberts

Production

The film was shot on location in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

and

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

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Reception

Box office

In France it there were 72,000 admissions in its opening week.Simon Sheridan, ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema'', Titan Books 2011 p 54

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with ''Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a ...

'' said "As its title indicates, Peter Walker's latest piece of titillatory entertainment is largely a peg on which to hang an assortment of bikinis and diminutive undergarments. But after a relatively lively start, this nonsensical and determinedly risqué farce plods humourlessly on its way with leaden dialogue, wooden acting and rough sound recording."

References

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