For Men Only (1967 film)

For Men Only, also known as I Like Birds, is a 1967 British short sex comedy film written, produced and directed by Pete Walker. It was his debut production.[1][2][3]

For Men Only
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Directed byPete Walker
Written byPete Walker
Produced byPete Walker
StarringDavid Kernan
Andrea Allen
Derek Aylward
CinematographyGerry Lewis
Edited byPeter Austen-Hunt
Music byHarry South
Production
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Pete Walker-Border
Distributed byBorder Films
Release date
  • 1967 (1967)
Running time
38 minutes
CountryUK
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Freddie Horne loves his job working for a trendy women's fashion magazine, but his pretty blonde fiancée is getting jealous. To smooth things over Freddie takes a job with the Puritan Magazine Group, an organisation hell-bent on promoting moral reform and "family values". However, the caddish chief executive Miles Fanthorpe is not all he seems. Fanthorpe's East Grinstead country house is actually full of scantily-clad young women, and he is secretly publishing a girlie magazine.

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Critical reception

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Monthly Film Bulletin said "The permissive society is obviously making it more difficult to produce a prurient film. To convince us that there's something naughty about photographing girls in bikinis, this one resorts to the improbable device of creating a mild pornographer whose primary concern is to safeguard his reputation among East Grinstead churchgoers. And although none of its cast remains fully dressed throughout, its hero is just old-fashioned enough to marry the one girl who loses her clothes by accident rather than by design. Not that the film is provocative – merely embarrassing. And its crude scripting means that its elaborate car chase is entirely unmotivated."[4]

References

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  1. ^ "For Men Only". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  2. ^ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 54
  3. ^ "'God, what a terrible film'"by Will Hodgkinson, The Guardian 11 March 2005 accessed 15 November 2014
  4. ^ "For Men Only". Monthly Film Bulletin. 34 (396): 190. 1967 – via ProQuest.
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