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{{Infobox film
| name = No Sex Please: We're British
| image = "No_Sex_Please,_We're_British"_(1973).jpg
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| caption =
| director = [[Cliff Owen]]
| producer = [[John R. Sloan]]
| screenplay = '''Adaptation''' [[Brian Cooke]] [[Johnnie Mortimer]]
| based_on = {{Based on|''[[No Sex Please, We're British]]''| Alistair Foot [[Anthony Marriott]]}}
| narrator =
| starring = [[Ronnie Corbett]] [[Ian Ogilvy]] [[Susan Penhaligon]] [[Beryl Reid]] [[Arthur Lowe]]
| music = [[Eric Rogers (composer)|Eric Rogers]]
| cinematography = [[Ken Hodges (cinematographer)|Ken Hodges]]
| editing = [[Ralph Kemplen]]
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]
| released = 25 July 1973 {{small|(UK)}} 10 August 1979 {{small|(USA)}}
| runtime = 91 min.
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
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'''''No Sex Please, We're British''''' is a 1973 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[Cliff Owen]], and starring [[Ronnie Corbett]], [[Ian Ogilvy]], [[Susan Penhaligon]], and [[Arthur Lowe]]. It was based on the 1971 play ''[[No Sex Please, We're British]]'', with multiple changes in the film adaptation.

==Synopsis==
Runnicles, a clerk in a small-town British bank (openly depicted in the film as the branch of [[Barclays Bank]] in [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] High Street),<ref>{{IMDb title|id=0070450}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=//www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxYeeYPrsY |title=YouTube |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2014-03-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707115547/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxYeeYPrsY |archive-date=7 July 2014 }}</ref> is horrified when a package arrives containing pornography, rather than the new calculator he expected. His efforts to dispose of it, while avoiding detection, turn into a [[Farce|farcical]] series of events involving a bank inspector, the police, and a local criminal to whom the pornography actually belongs.

==Cast==
* [[Ronnie Corbett]] – Brian Runnicles
* [[Ian Ogilvy]] – David Hunter
* [[Susan Penhaligon]] – Penny Hunter
* [[Beryl Reid]] – Bertha Hunter
* [[Arthur Lowe]] – Mr Bromley
* [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]] – Mr Needham
* [[Cheryl Hall]] – Daphne Martin
* [[David Swift (actor)|David Swift]] – Inspector Paul
* [[Deryck Guyler]] – Park keeper
* [[Valerie Leon]] – Susan
* [[Margaret Nolan]] – Barbara
* [[Gerald Sim]] – Reverend Mower
* [[John Bindon]] – Pete
* [[Stephen Greif]] – Niko
* [[Michael Robbins]] – Car driver
* [[Frank Thornton]] – Glass Shop Manager
* [[Michael Ripper]] – Traffic warden
* [[Lloyd Lamble]] – American man
* [[Mavis Villiers]] – American lady
* [[Sydney Bromley]] – Rag & Bone Man
* [[Brian Wilde]] – Policeman in park
* [[Eric Longworth]] – Man with Lighter
* [[Edward Sinclair]] – Postman
* [[Fred Griffiths (actor)|Fred Griffiths]] as Delivery Man
* [[Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1919)|Lucy Griffiths]] as Spinster Lady
* [[Robin Askwith]] – Baker's delivery man

==Critical reception==
Writing in 1979, at the time of the American release, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reviewer commented: "In its own way, it is well done ... (with) its simple-minded and by now rather outdated double and triple entendres."<ref>{{cite web|last=Buckley|first=Tom|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C04E1D71730E532A25753C1A96E9C946890D6CF |title=Movie Review – No Sex Please We re British – Screen: Double Debut From Britain at Thalia:Contrasting Roles |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 August 1979|access-date=7 March 2014}}</ref>

''[[TV Guide]]'' said: "A pleasing performance from Corbett ... saves this otherwise average British farce from the usual doldrums."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/no-sex-please-were-british/107629 |title=No Sex Please-We're British|work=TV Guide|access-date=7 March 2014}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*{{British Comedy Guide|film|no_sex_please_were_british|No Sex Please, We're British}}
*{{IMDb title|0070450|No Sex Please, We're British}}

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[[Category:1973 films]]
[[Category:1973 comedy films]]
[[Category:1973 in England]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:Films about sexual repression]]
[[Category:Films directed by Cliff Owen]]
[[Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios]]
[[Category:Films set in Windsor, Berkshire]]
[[Category:Columbia Pictures films]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
[[Category:1970s British films]]

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