Eskimo Nell. Image shows from L to R: Harris Tweedle (Christopher Timothy), Denis Morrison (Michael Armstrong), Benny U. Murdoch (Roy Kinnear). Copyright: Salon Productions
Eskimo Nell

Eskimo Nell

  • 1975 film

Riotous comedy about the ambitions of a young film school graduate attempting to make his first film, a sex feature based on a bawdy 19th Century poem. Stars Roy Kinnear, Katy Manning, Anna Quayle, Christopher Timothy, Terence Edmond and more.

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How London's sex comedies saved British cinema

The saucy Carry On films, popular since the late 1950s, must have also given filmmakers ideas. But these films only took it so far, with nakedness more implied than seen -- even in the famous scene where Barbara Windsor's bikini top catapults away from her breasts. And so came the low-budget, bizarrely plotted, early 1970s sex comedy.

Ben Venables, Londonist, 19th August 2016

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