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	\| music = [[Harry Robertson (musician)\|Harry Robinson]]		\| music = [[Harry Robertson (musician)\|Harry Robinson]]
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	\| director = [[Ray Cooney]]<br />[[Harold Snoad]]		\| director = [[Ray Cooney]]<br />[[Harold Snoad]]
	\| based_on = "Chase Me, Comrade" (play) by Ray Cooney		\| based_on = "Chase Me, Comrade" (play) by Ray Cooney

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	* {{IMDb title\|0074977}}		* {{IMDb title\|0074977}}

	~~{{Harold Snoad}}~~

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{{Short description|1976 British film by Ray Cooney and Harold Snoad}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Not Now, Comrade
| image = "Not_Now,_Comrade"_(1976).jpg
| caption = British quad poster
| director = [[Ray Cooney]] [[Harold Snoad]]
| based_on = "Chase Me, Comrade" (play) by Ray Cooney
| producer = Martin C. Schute
| writer = Ray Cooney
| starring = [[Leslie Phillips]] [[Roy Kinnear]] [[Windsor Davies]] [[Don Estelle]] [[Michelle Dotrice]] Ray Cooney [[June Whitfield]] [[Carol Hawkins]] [[Lewis Fiander]] [[Ian Lavender]]
| music = [[Harry Robertson (musician)|Harry Robinson]]
| cinematography = [[Jack Hildyard]]
| editing = Peter Thornton
| country = United Kingdom
| studio = Not Now Films ([[Independent film|Independent]])
| distributor = [[EMI]] (UK)
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1976}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| language = English
}}

'''''Not Now, Comrade''''' is a 1976 British comedy film directed by [[Ray Cooney]] and [[Harold Snoad]] and starring [[Leslie Phillips]], [[Windsor Davies]], [[Don Estelle]] and [[Ian Lavender]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=Not Now, Comrade |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150035575 |access-date=1 February 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was shot at [[Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)|Elstree studios]] as the sequel to ''[[Not Now, Darling (film)|Not Now, Darling]]'' (1973), and was the second in an intended series of "Not Now" films, with ''Not Now, Prime Minister'' pencilled in as a follow-up. But box office returns for this film, unlike those of its predecessor, were disappointing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Film_tv/not_now_comrade.aspx |title=Not now Comrade |access-date=8 November 2014 |archive-date=8 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108193237/http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Film_tv/not_now_comrade.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://networkonair.com/features/2013/05/09/not-now-comrade/|title=Networkonair > Features > Not Now Comrade|website=Networkonair.com}}</ref> It was the only feature film directed by Snoad.

==Plot==
[[Russians|Russian]] [[ballet]] dancer Rudi Petrovyan wants to [[defection|defect]]. Unable to reach the [[British embassy]] and pursued by the [[KGB]], he hides out with, and falls for, [[stripper]] Barbara Wilcox. But Rudi's planned escape in the boot of a [[Triumph Motor Company|Triumph]] backfires when he climbs into the wrong car, and he ends up in the country home of unsuspecting naval Commander Rimmington.

==Cast==
* [[Leslie Phillips]] as Commander Rimmington
* [[Roy Kinnear]] as Hoskins
* [[Windsor Davies]] as Constable Pulford
* [[Don Estelle]] as Bobby Hargreaves
* [[Michele Dotrice]] as Nancy Rimmington
* [[Ray Cooney]] as Mr Laver
* [[June Whitfield]] as Janet Rimmington
* [[Carol Hawkins]] as Barbara Wilcox
* [[Lewis Fiander]] as Rudi Petrovyan
* [[Ian Lavender]] as Gerry Buss
* [[Richard Marner]] as 1st Russian official
* [[Michael Sharvell-Martin]] as 2nd Russian official

==Stage origins==
Cooney's 1964 play ''Chase Me, Comrade'' was based on the 1961 defection of [[Rudolf Nureyev]]. First appearing in 1964 at the [[Theatre Royal, Windsor]], Cooney himself played Gerry Buss.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.raycooney.co.uk/chase-me-comrade-cwiv|title=Chase Me Comrade|website=Ray-cooney-3|access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref> The play became a [[Whitehall farce]] running for 765 performances between 1964 and 1966. It was televised by the BBC's ''Laughter from the Whitehall'' in August 1964<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6451744/|title=Chase Me Comrade!|date=28 August 1964|access-date=23 October 2021|website=IMDb.com}}</ref> and again in December 1967.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/1824|title=Chase Me Comrade · British Universities Film & Video Council|website=Bufvc.ac.uk|access-date=23 October 2021}}</ref> In 1966 Cooney published a novelisation of the play. In 1981 Dutch television transmitted a version of the play called ''Een Kus van een Rus.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457028/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1|title=Een kus van een rus|date=3 March 1981|access-date=23 October 2021|website=IMDb.com}}</ref>''

== Songs ==
Don Estelle sings "Not Now" (lyric: [[Sammy Cahn]], music: [[Wally Ridley|Walter Ridley]]).

== Critical reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: "Barbara removes her clothes and enthusiastically twirls her tasselled breasts; the ballet dancers posing for photographers in front of the Albert Hall spontaneously break into dance; Rudi mistakenly leaps into Rimmington's car; Barbara buttons up her blouse while angrily driving after him round Hyde Park. Having provided this obligatory glimpse of a semi-nude woman, ''Not Now, Comrade'' settles into the familiar round of harmless double entendres buried in the ramifications of a mistaken-identity plot played by the familiar troupers of British farce – Roy Kinnear, the gardener perpetually on the point of repressed sexual combustion; Leslie Phillips, still the self-regarding gay blade, here complete with naval beard and yellow Bentley; June Whitfield, Nancy's homely Mum; Windsor Davies, the doubting hob-nailed Constable, and Don Estelle, arbitrarily brought on in the last reel to partner him in yet another re-run of their Indian Army routine. Master of ceremonies Ray Cooney delivers the film's most embarrassing lines (the drunken Laver indulges in cloying baby-talk) and co-directs the mirthless proceedings at great speed but in a style derived from the dated traditions of the ''[[Whitehall Theatre]]''."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=1977 |title=Not Now Comrade |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305818020/CEDD3F4D229C438APQ/2 |journal=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=44 |issue=516 |pages=48 |via=ProQuest}}</ref>

The [[British Comedy Guide]] called the film "a really delightful forgotten gem of British cinema comedy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/film/not_now_comrade/|title=Not Now, Comrade|website=Comedy.co.uk}}</ref>

The ''[[Radio Times]]'' called it a "horrid comedy of errors," adding "for the sake of a hard-working cast, let's draw a discreet [[Iron Curtain]] over the whole charade."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jrh86/not-now-comrade|title=Not Now, Comrade|author=David Parkinson|work=RadioTimes}}</ref>

''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' said it was "from the darkest days of British cinema, a farrago which began life as Cooney's Whitehall farce, ''Chase Me, Comrade''."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/not-now-comrade|title=Not Now, Comrade|work=Time Out London|access-date=8 November 2014|archive-date=8 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108203036/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/not-now-comrade|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0074977}}

{{Harold Snoad}}

[[Category:1976 films]]
[[Category:British spy comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at EMI-Elstree Studios]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Ray Cooney]]
[[Category:Films set in England]]
[[Category:Films set in London]]
[[Category:1970s spy comedy films]]
[[Category:1970s political comedy films]]
[[Category:British political comedy films]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
[[Category:1970s British films]]
[[Category:Films scored by Harry Robertson]]

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