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<div>{{short description|1973 film by Ralph Thomas}}<br />
{{Infobox film<br />
| name = The Love Ban<br />
| image = File:The Love Ban.jpg<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| director = [[Ralph Thomas]]<br />
| producer = [[Betty E. Box]]<br />
| writer = <br />
| based_on = the play ''It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World'' by [[Kevin Laffan]]<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Hywel Bennett]]<br />[[Nanette Newman]] <br /> [[Angharad Rees]]<br />
| music = [[Stanley Myers]]<br />
| cinematography = [[Tony Imi]]<br />
| editing = [[Roy Watts]]<br />
| studio = Welbeck Films<br />
| distributor = [[British Lion Films]]<br />
| released = 25 January 1973<br />
| runtime = 96 minutes<br />
| country = United Kingdom<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
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'''''The Love Ban''''' is a 1973 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Ralph Thomas]] and starring [[Hywel Bennett]], [[Nanette Newman]] and [[Milo O'Shea]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/62956 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; it's a 2'6" ABOVE THE GROUND WORLD (1972) |website=ftvdb.bfi.org.uk |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126050950/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/62956 |archive-date=26 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was based on a play by [[Kevin Laffan]]. It is also known under the [[alternative title]]s of '''''It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World''''' and '''''Anyone for Sex?'''''<br />
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==Plot==<br />
A married couple with six children experience marital difficulties. Wife Kate refuses to sleep with husband Mick until he uses birth control, while their live-in au-pair falls pregnant.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Hywel Bennett]] as Mick Goonahan<br />
* [[Nanette Newman]] as Kate Goonahan<br />
* [[Milo O'Shea]] as Father Andrew<br />
* [[Angharad Rees]] as Jackie<br />
* [[Nicky Henson]] as Baker<br />
* [[Georgina Hale]] as Joyce<br />
* [[Madeline Smith]] as Miss Partridge<br />
* [[Peter Barkworth]] as Bra Factory Director<br />
* [[John Cleese]] as Contraceptives Lecturer<br />
* [[Marianne Stone]] as Customer In Chemists<br />
* [[Nina Baden-Semper]] as Skyline Waitress<br />
* [[Cheryl Hall]] as Pregnant Woman<br />
* [[Jacki Piper]] as Pregnant Woman<br />
* David Howey as Barber<br />
* [[Tommy Godfrey]] as Barber<br />
* James Leith as Policeman<br />
* [[Tony Haygarth]] as Policeman<br />
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==Production==<br />
The film was based on a 1969 play by [[Kevin Laffan]], ''It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World''. Laffan was one of 14 children from a devout Roman Catholic family and his critical view on the Church's stance on birth control was a recurring theme of his work. The play starred Prunella Scales in a production at the [[Bristol Old Vic]], and was a hit, moving to the [[Wyndham's Theatre]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1425635/Kevin-Laffan.html Kevin Laffan obituary] at The Telegraph</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kevin-laffan-122891.html Kevin Laffan obituary] at ''The Independent''</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/09/03/playwright-kevin-laffan/|title=Playwright Kevin Laffan|first=Margaret|last=Maclean}}</ref><ref>THEATRE: A popular giant<br />
Bryden, Ronald. The Observer (1901- 2003) [London (UK)] 07 Dec 1969: 40D.</ref><br />
===Filming===<br />
It was shot at [[Shepperton Studios]] with sets designed by the [[art director]] [[Anthony D. G. Pratt|Anthony Pratt]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb title|0070339}}<br />
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