Not Now, Darling (film)

Not Now, Darling
Directed by	Ray Cooney David Croft
Written by	John Chapman Ray Cooney
Starring	Leslie Phillips Moira Lister Julie Ege Jack Hulbert
Music by	Cyril Ornadel
Cinematography	Alan Hume John Rook
Edited by	Peter Thornton
Distributed by	LMG Film Productions Dimension Pictures
Release date	1973 (1973)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Not Now, Darling is a 1973 British comedy film adapted from the play of the same title by John Chapman and Ray Cooney. The plot is a farce centered on a fur coat shop in central London. A loosely related sequel Not Now, Comrade was released in 1976.

It was the last film to feature appearances by Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert who had been a leading celebrity couple in the 1930s and 1940s.

Plot

Gilbert Bodley (Leslie Phillips) plans to sell an expensive mink to mobster Harry McMichaell (Derren Nesbitt), dirt cheap, for his wife Janie (Julie Ege). Janie is Gilbert's mistress, and Gilbert wants to "close the deal." However, instead of doing his own dirty work, he gets his reluctant partner Arnold Crouch (Ray Cooney) to do it for him. Things go awry when Harry plans to buy the same coat for his own mistress, Sue Lawson (Barbara Windsor), and the whole plan fails.

Cast

• Trudi Van Doorn as Miss Whittington
• Leslie Phillips as Gilbert Bodley
• Julie Ege as Janie McMichael
• Joan Sims as Miss Ambrosine Tipdale
• Derren Nesbitt as Harry McMichael
• Ray Cooney as Arnold Crouch
• Bill Fraser as Commissionaire
• Jack Hulbert as Commander George Frencham
• Cicely Courtneidge as Mrs. Harriet Frencham
• Derren Nesbitt as Harry McMichael
• Barbara Windsor as Sue Lawson
• Moira Lister as Maude Bodley
• Jackie Pallo as Mr. Lawson
• Peter Butterworth and Graham Stark (both uncredited) as Painters

References

External links

• Not Now, Darling on IMDb
• Not Now, Darling at AllMovie
• Not Now, Darling at the Internet Broadway Database
• Not Now, Darling at British Comedy Guide