Keep It Up Downstairs | |
Director: | Robert Young |
Producer: | Hazel Adair Mark Forstater |
Starring: | Diana Dors Jack Wild William Rushton |
Cinematography: | Alan Pudney |
Editing: | Mike Campbell |
Music: | Michael Nyman |
Studio: | Pyramid Films |
Distributor: | Thorn EMI |
Runtime: | 94 minutes |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Keep It Up Downstairs (also known as Can You Keep It Up Downstairs? and My Favorite Butler), is a 1976 British period sex comedy film, directed by Robert Young and starring Diana Dors, Jack Wild and William Rushton.[1]
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.
It was shot at Elstree Studios and on location at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. A version exists with hardcore inserts; these were shot with body doubles for the main stars.[2]
The score was by Michael Nyman, his first for a commercially released film.
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 and 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."[3]