morrison-dylan-fan Talking to a family friend about the recent airing of the Comedy film Man About The House,I was surprised to find out that he had not seen a well-known Sex Comedy featuring leading Man About The House actor Richard O'Sullivan,which led to me deciding that it would be the perfect time to meet a pair of Au pair's.The plot:Arriving to the UK from a number of different European countries,4 women called Randi Lindstrom, Anita Sector, Nan Lee and Christa Geisler join an Au Pair agency.Shortly after joining the agency,each of them are sent out to assist families,with Randi Lindstrom getting greeted by a businessmen called Stephen,whilst Anita Sector is taken to a Rock concert,so that she can lose her innocence.View on the film:Despite being dismissive of the movie after it failed to be seen as 'high art' co-writer/ (along with David Adnopoz and David Grant) director Val Guest takes a rather daring approach to the flesh on display in the title,with Guest showing each of the beautiful women fully naked,instead of the 'cheeky peak' that was the traditional route taken for British Sex Comedies at the time.Whilst sadly being limited to a supportive role, Richard O'Sullivan gives a delightfully awkward performance as Stephen,whilst Me Me Lai gives the film an unexpected shot of melancholy as Nan Lee and Astrid Frank reveals a real sense of sorrow as Anita Sector.For the screenplay,the writer's initially give the movie a light & fluffy appearance,but disappointingly soon take the title into an extremely sour direction,due to the 'playful' frolics that the Au pair's find themselves involved in having a deeply uncomfortable predatory undertone,with the ending to Anita Sector's storyline,taking all the fun out of,what should have been a wonderful (Au) pair.

Dave from Ottawa Pretty foreign girls take au pair jobs in England and get seduced into naughty situations by a variety of local louts. The look is cheap and the whole proceedings are played for sensationalism and cheap laughs, rather like a D-list Carry On film, which incidentally was how this piece was advertised when it first played on cable TV in the 80s. The characters have little depth, and there is nothing in the way of a story, just random episodes leading to shedding of clothes. For its genre it wasn't terrible, and the girls are pretty attractive (especially the obviously British Gabrielle Drake playing a Scandinavian, and the amusingly named Asian actress Me Me Lay), but keep expectations low.

Neil Welch The Brits simply don't get sex, and it is always educational to compare how the English do it on film with other countries. The Germans tend to take a regimented point of view and accompany it with oompah bands. The French are very matter of fact and photograph it beautifully. The Americans take it very seriously. And the Brits? So tied up with Victorian guilt are we that the only way we can bear to put sex in the public domain is to call it "bonking" and try to laugh at it. Hence a string of pre-internet so-called sex comedies which take the Carry On approach, but miss the point that the innuendo was what made the Carry Ons funny by taking it a step further and spelling everything out in full-frontal detail.Au Pair Girls is a case in point. The flimsy plot is hardly worth mentioning, the script even less so (other than to point out that it's not actually very funny).However, there are worthwhile things to observe (at least several of which belong to Gabrielle Drake, har har).The first is that, so run down was the British entertainment industry (particularly in the 70s) that this film, in common with many of its ilk, boasts a decent array of relatively high profile talent, taking work where they can in order to pay their mortgages. I'm sure they would rather have been in Hamlet, but there you go - beggars can't be choosers (the aforementioned Miss Drake went on to TV success not long after exposing her frontage and nethers in this offering, for instance).The second is that there are some pretty girls with no clothes on.But that's about it, really.

honkingmanc The plot has already been described by other reviewers, so I will simply add that my reason for wanting to see this film was to see Gabrielle Drake in all her undoubted glory.Miss Drake has to be one of the sexiest, prettiest examples of "posh totty" to have been committed to celluloid. Of her era and ilk, only the equally exquisite Jane Asher comes close. What was it about actresses with musical brothers? (Nick Drake and Peter Asher) For those who like me have admired Gabrielle, her scenes in this movie will not disappoint. She has a magnificent figure and none of it is left to the imagination here.As a whole, the movie is very poor and being of its time, very cheaply made. The song that covers the opening credits seems to go on forever and is appalling.