Let's Get Laid (1978)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1977
Running Times: 92 mins     96 mins
Format: colour     35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Norfolk International
Executive Producer: Paul Raymond (uncredited)
Producer: Brian Smedley-Aston
Production Manager: Brian Heard

SCRIPT
Script: Michael Robson
Play: Sam Cree

DIRECTION
Director: James Kenelm Clarke
Assistant Director: Ed Harper
2nd Assistant Director: Michael Flynn

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Phil Meheux
Camera Assistant: Graham Hazard
Chief Electrician: Derek Boulter
Stills: Tony Auguste, Susan Delfont

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Jim Connock
Assistant Editor: Cyril Simon

MUSIC
Music: James Kenelm Clarke
Conductor: Johnny Pearson
Song: Michael Robson (lyrics), Steve Gray (music) (You Turn My Legs To Water)

SOUND
Sound: Mickey Hickey, Ted Ryan
Boom Operator: Colin Wood
Sound Editors: Bill Trent, Colin Miller

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Bunty Phillips
Hair: Anne McFadyen
Wardrobe Supervisor: Joanne Stewart
Wardrobe Assistant: Albert Johnson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Ken Bridgeman
Props: Bob Hedges
Titles: Malcolm Johnson, Richard Wells

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Georgina Hamilton
Original Research: Karen De Grut
Production Secretary: Joan Williams
Publicist: Wendy Taylor
Producer's Assistant: Paul Shersby

LOCATIONS
Locations: London, England, UK; The Channel Islands, England, UK

CASTING
Casting: Miriam Brickman

CAST
Fiona Richmond (Maxine Lupercal)
Robin Askwith (Gordon Laid)
Graham Stark (Inspector Nugent)
Anthony Steel (Moncrieff Dovecroft)
Linda Hayden (Gloria)
Roland Curram (Rupert Dorchester)
Tony Haygarth (Sgt Costello)
Patrick Holt (the commissioner)
Fanny Carby (lady in phone booth)
Murray Salem, Ted Burnett (heavies)
Shaun Curry (Greenleaf)
Charles Pemberton (PC Baxter)
Richard Manuel (Fenton Umfreville)
Peter Cartwright (film director)
David Sterne (Sgt Millicent)
James Marcus (Rusper)
Anna Chen (Oriental girl)
Lisa Taylor (Eleanor)
Jayne Lester (young tart)
Donna Scarff (A.T.S. girl)
Clare Russell (Marti)
Tony Hughes (Goddard Ronaldshay)
Zuleika Hobson (Thelma)
Shelagh Dey (Helen)
Ron Eagleton (Wilbur)
Frank Ellis (mortician)
Elise Relnah (old lady)
Daryl Fahey (couturier)
Clice Moss (corporal)
Val Mitchell, Jane Winchester, Adrian Le Peltier, Mike Charles (stage chorus)
John Clive (Piers Harrabin)
Pat Astley (ATS girl - uncredited)
Timothy Blackstone (Eleanor's lover - uncredited)
Vicki Scott (girl at poolside)

Uptight Gordon Laid returns home from the Second World War and finds himself embroiled with the hunt by enemy agents for a device hidden in a cigarette lighter that causes electricity to switch on and off from a distance. His efforts to help the authorities recapture the device are hindered when he falls in love with Maxine Lupercal, leading him to have lustful fantasies about her at inopportune moments.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Target
Video Distributors: Intervision; New Direction / AVR

UK
Rating: X; 18

1978
May
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release

2000
August
11: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)

2002
March
29: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)

Now, Britain's sexy superstars get it together!

Fiona
Love Trap
Sinua halutaan Laid! - Finnish title

MAGAZINES

Continental Film Review vol.25 no.4 (February 1978) pp.20-21 (UK)
review

Films and Filming vol.24 no.5 (February 1978) p.509 (Uk)
credits, review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.45 no.534 (July 1978) p.137 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Screen International no.85 (30 April 1977) p.9 (UK)
credits

Screen International no.87 (14 May 1977) p.8 (UK)
note

Screen International no.141 (3 June 1978) p.17 (UK)
review

BOOKS

Elliot's Guide to Films on Video p.457
credits, review

Keeping the British End Up pp.160-161
illustrated credits, review (by Simon Sheridan)

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

sex; spies; london; rivers; rolls-royces; soldiers; pubs; actresses; bicycles; cinemas; chases; gadgets; secret agents; railway stations; trains