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{{Short description|1976 British film by Robert Young}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Keep It Up Downstairs
| image = File:Keep It Up Downstairs.jpg
| caption =
| director = [[Robert Young (director)|Robert Young]]
| writer = [[Hazel Adair (screenwriter)|Hazel Adair]]
| producer = Hazel Adair <br /> [[Mark Forstater]]
| starring = [[Diana Dors]] <br /> [[Jack Wild]] <br /> [[Willie Rushton|William Rushton]]
| narrator =
| cinematography = [[Alan Pudney]]
| editing = [[Mike Campbell (film editor)|Mike Campbell]]
| music = [[Michael Nyman]]
| studio = Pyramid Films
| distributor = [[Thorn EMI]]
| released = {{Film date|1976|07|29|df=yes}}
| runtime = 94 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''Keep It Up Downstairs''''' (also known as '''''Can You Keep It Up Downstairs?''''' and '''''My Favorite Butler'''''), is a 1976 British [[Period drama|period]] [[sex comedy]] film, directed by [[Robert Young (director)|Robert Young]] and starring [[Diana Dors]], [[Jack Wild]] and [[Willie Rushton|William Rushton]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Keep It Up Downstairs |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150029621 |access-date=29 November 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref>

==Plot==
The film follows the adventures of the sex-crazed inhabitants of the bankrupt Cockshute Castle in 1904, and the attempts of Lord and Lady Cockshute to find a rich wife for their uninterested inventor son Peregrine.

==Cast==
* [[Diana Dors]] as Daisy Dureneck
* [[Jack Wild]] as Peregrine Cockshute
* [[Willie Rushton|William Rushton]] as Snotty Shuttleworth
* [[Aimi MacDonald]] as Christabelle St. Clair
* [[Françoise Pascal]] as Mimi
* [[Neil Hallett]] as Percy Hampton
* [[Mark Singleton (actor)|Mark Singleton]] as Lord Cockshute
* [[Julian Orchard]] as Bishop
* Simon Brent as Rogers
* [[Sue Longhurst]] as Lady Cockshute
* [[John Blythe (actor)|John Blythe]] as Francis Dureneck
* [[Carmen Silvera]] as Lady Bottomley
* [[Seretta Wilson]] as Betsy-Ann Dureneck
* Anthony Kenyon as Mellons
* Olivia Munday as Lady Kitty Cockshute
* [[April Olrich]] as Duchess
* Sally Harrison as Maud
* [[Mary Millington]] as Polly

==Production==
It was shot at [[Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)|Elstree Studios]] and [[location shooting|on location]] at [[Knebworth House]] in [[Hertfordshire]]. A version exists with hardcore inserts; these were shot with [[body double]]s for the main stars.<ref>Sheridan, Simon (2011). ''Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema''. Titan Books Ltd</ref>

== Music ==
The score was by [[Michael Nyman]], his first for a commercially released film.

==Critical response==
''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' said "A joyless 'romp' that is soporifically heavy-handed with its phallic imagery and double meanings (endless references to "big ones" and "getting it off"), ''Keep It Up Downstairs'' bungles the tempting possibility of a ribald melange of ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs Downstairs]]'' and [[The Go-Between (1971 film)|''The Go-Between'']] [1971] school of sensitive historical drama. The cast, required to bare breasts and buttocks at regular intervals, is able to make no headway against the inane script and consistently mistimed direction."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1976 |title=Keep It Up Downstairs |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305837010/5DB12FBC038545AAPQ/1 |journal=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=43 |issue=504 |pages=102 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0074736}}
*[https://www.reelstreets.com/films/keep-it-up-downstairs/ ''Keep It Up Downstairs''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161016175140/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6adeb015 Keep It Up Downstairs] at BFI
*[https://letterboxd.com/film/keep-it-up-downstairs/ Keep It Up Downstairs] at Letterbox DVD
*[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/501387/Keep-It-Up-Downstairs/ Keep It Up Downstairs] at [[TCMDB]]

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