Commuter Husbands Explained

Commuter Husbands
Director:Derek Ford
Producer:Morton Lewis
Starring:Gabrielle Drake
Robin Bailey
Heather Chasen
Robin Culver
Brenda Peters
Music:Terry Warr
Cinematography:Morton Lewis
Roy Pointer
Editing:Roy Deverell
Distributor:Scotia International
Runtime:85 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

Commuter Husbands is a British 1972 comedy film directed by sexploitation director Derek Ford, starring Gabrielle Drake, Robin Bailey, and Claire Gordon.[1] It is a semi-sequel to Ford's 1971 film Suburban Wives.

Plot

The Story Teller enters the Penthouse Club in London, which she declares is the "front line" in the battle of the sexes, proving "that man is the most dangerous animal of them all – excepting woman". She introduces six stories about wayward husbands.

Cast

Soundtrack

Production

The film exists also in a version with hardcore inserts, but there is no suggestion that any of the credited cast performed hardcore.[2]

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "An almost caricaturally British sexploiter whose infrequent and generally cold consummations are supplemented by some indulgent fantasy inserts involving ladies less coy in their abandonment than the majority of the film's characters. From the setting of London's Penthouse Club, here claimed as "the foremost casualty station in the battle of the sexes", Gabrielle Drake delivers the commentary's anthropological generalisations in tones of genteel condescension, though neither the setting, the hunting metaphors nor the refinement have much relevance to the rather wistful lusts subsequently displayed. Although the film overworks its fairly flimsy material, milking the potential comedy of its awkward situations for several laughs too many, it at least has the merit of not expecting us to take seriously the philandering of its one-dimensional characters."[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Commuter Husbands . 30 November 2023 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  2. Sheridan,Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd
  3. 1973 . Commuter Husbands . . 40 . 468 . 74 . ProQuest.