''Let's Get Laid'', also known as ''Love Trap'', is a 1978 British

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directed by James Kenelm Clarke and starring

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, Fiona Richmond and Anthony Steel. A man returns to London after being demobbed at the end of the

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, only to find himself suspected of a murder in

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. Anthony Steel and Fiona Richmond had previously starred together in '' Hardcore'' (1977).

Cast

Critical reception

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'' wrote: "The audience always knows what to expect of Maxine Lupercal's films, explains one of the unit, alluding to the fact that (in a feeble running gag) the same script is used for all of them. It is unlikely, however, given its title and co-stars, that patrons of ''Let's Get Laid!'' will be expecting a lame comedy-thriller shakily set in the late Forties (although its material more properly belongs to the preceding decade). The film remains fatally undecided whether to go for parody or pastiche, and duly fails as either, with only the on-stage finale (seemingly cribbed from Danny Kaye's '' Knock on Wood'') sufficiently well-timed to make any impact. Moreover, Robin Askwith looks no more at ease in his

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guise than does Fiona Richmond as a latter-day Gainsborough Girl. As a concession to the raincoat trade, however, she is allowed to display her more customary charms in some arbitrarily inserted dream interludes, one of which dubiously attires her, in the brief pause before the stripping starts, in a Nazi uniform." ''The

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Guide to Films'' gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Also known as ''Love Trap,'' this was Robin Askwith's farewell to the world of soft-core comedy. When you've been reduced to playing characters called Gordon Laid, it's easy to see how the novelty might have worn thin. The director is James Kenelm Clarke, whose involvement with the genre came after directing a BBC documentary on pornography."

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