Adult Cinema

Description by OLDIES.com:

The British tradition of 'saucy postcard' humor is perhaps best exemplified by the work of Benny Hill and the long running Carry On movies. But there is a forgotten cinema of saucier 'X' certificate films.

Lynda Bellingham, Joan Collins, Gabrielle Drake and Joanna Lumley were among those who appeared in such films. Most famously, Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond and Mary Millington became seventies superstars in movies that put boobs on screen and bums on seats.

Author Simon Sheridan traces the history of the British sex film from its coy beginnings in Nudist Paradise through to its boom years with the Confessions series and its demise in the early eighties.

In this new and updated edition of Keeping the British End UP Sheridan includes a definitive filmography and coaxes the facts from previously reclusive and reluctant interviewees. The story that unfolds is often funny and sometimes tragic, but undeniably revealing.