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Fanny Hill (1983 film)

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Fanny Hill
Directed byGerry O'Hara
Written byStephen Chesley
Based onFanny Hill
1749 novel
by John Cleland
Produced byHarry Benn
StarringLisa Foster
Oliver Reed
Shelley Winters
Wilfrid Hyde-White
CinematographyTony Spratling
Edited byPeter Boyle
Music byPaul Hoffert
Production
companies
Brent Walker Film Productions
Theatre Division
F.H. Filmproduction Limited
Playboy Productions (uncredited)
Distributed byBrent Walker Film Distributing
Release date
  • 15 July 1983 (1983-07-15) (West Germany)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Fanny Hill (also known as Sex, Lies and Renaissance) is a 1983 British sex comedy film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Shelley Winters. It is adapted from the 1748 novel of the same name by John Cleland.[1]

Plot

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Poor country lass Fanny Hill sets off for London where she embarks on a series of sexual encounters in pursuit of wealth and happiness, "with many erotic asides."[2]

Cast

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Production

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O'Hara said Towers wrote a script but O'Hara did not use it. "I had a pretty good cast though," said O'Hara.[3]

Critical reception

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  • Time Out wrote, "a relatively large budget and some respectable names in the cast list, but this is still limp softcore flummery sold on the half-remembered notoriety of its purported 18th century source...Lawyer Reed and madam Winters, meanwhile, seem as though they have their teeth gritted in the hope that it will all be over soon."[4]
  • Sky Movies wrote, "they should have made the script funnier, got Kenneth Williams and Joan Sims - and retitled it Carry On Fanny..."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure". BFI. Archived from the original on 14 January 2009.
  2. ^ "Fanny Hill (1983)". IMDB. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  3. ^ Dixon, Wheeler Winston (3 December 2010). "Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O'Hara". Screening the Past.
  4. ^ "Fanny Hill". Time Out London.
  5. ^ "Fanny Hill".
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