Spanish Fly

Spanish Fly (1976)

British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.

Data di uscita
1976-02-01
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (13)
Durata
1 h 26 min
Generi
Commedia
Regista
Bob Kellett

Cast

Curiosità

  • Girato a: Minorca

Spanish Fly is a 1975 British-Spanish comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Leslie Phillips, Terry-Thomas, Graham Armitage, Sue Lloyd and Nadiuska. It was written by Peter James, José Luis Martínez Mollá and Robert Ryerson.

Production

Impact-Quadrant Films was a company run by Peter James and Kent Walwin which specialised in financing and distributing horror films. They wanted to move into the British domestic sex comedy market, having noticed that there were no challengers to the Carry On Films. The company made a small investment in Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974) which was successful, and they began to look at making a whole feature.

A Canadian distributor had enjoyed success with a Leslie Phillips film and asked if they could have another. Phillips was about to go to Australia for a year so they had a script written quickly, about an escort agency. Nobody liked it so James and Walwin wrote a 110-page treatment over "a long weekend" which was turned into a script by a writer.

The film's budget was £250,000, of which 40% was provided by EMI Films and 8% by a Spanish company. The majority capital was split between James, his associate and four English backers, one of them a lawyer. In July 1975 EMI Films announced its involvement in the movie as part of a six-picture slate, which also included Evil Under the Sun (1982), Aces High (1976) and cinema adaptations of TV shows – The Likely Lads (1976) and Sweeney! (1977).

Leslie Phillips wrote in his memoir that he was offered the role over the phone while in Australia by director Bob Kellett. Phillips accepted before reading the script – while he said the title was "not exactly inspiring" he was friends with Terry-Thomas, who was going to co-star, and the idea of filming in Spain was attractive.

Filming started July 1975. The movie was shot in Menorca. According to director Bob Kellett, Phillips "had cut short the run of his play" in Australia to make the movie. When the actor arrived in Spain, Kellet says Phillips found "much to his dismay, that there wasn’t a script and he was a little bit indignant about the whole thing.

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