Prudence and the Pill ( 1968 )

Prudence and the Pill ( 1968 ) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Fielder Cook

Written By:
Hugh Mills

Actors:
Deborah Kerr ..... Prudence Hardcastle
David Niven ..... Gerald Hardcastle
Robert Coote ..... Henry Hardcastle
Irina Demick ..... Elizabeth Brett
Joyce Redman ..... Grace Hardcastle
Judy Geeson ..... Geraldine Hardcastle
Keith Michell ..... Dr. Alan Hewitt
Edith Evans ..... Lady Roberta Bates
David Dundas ..... Tony Bates
Vickery Turner ..... Rose the maid
Hugh Armstrong ..... Ted the chauffer
Peter Butterworth ..... Chemist
Moyra Fraser ..... Woman In Tea Shop
Annette Kerr ..... Gerald's Secretary
Harry Towb ..... Racetrack Official

Synopsis:

Prudence and the Pill serves up a comic slice of sixties permissiveness from the days when the oral contraceptive was a exotic and legendary devise that few people had any experience of using. Made in Britain by Twentieth Century-Fox, and starring the debonair David Niven and the luminous Deborah Kerr, with vivacious support from 'It' girl Judy Geeson, this film takes us back to 1967's 'Summer of Love', when established morality and codes of sexual behaviour were being turned upside down by new ideas and technology. So grab a gonk, straighten your mini-skirt and prepare yourself for a bumpy ride courtesy of the imprudent Prudence.

Prudence and the Pill serves up a comic slice of 60s permissiveness from the days when the oral contraceptive was an exotic device that few people had any experience of using. Made in Britain by Twentieth Century-Fox, and starring the debonair David Niven and the luminous Deborah Kerr, with vivacious support from Judy Geeson, this film takes us back to 1967's 'Summer of Love', when established morality and codes of sexual behaviour were being turned upside down by new ideas and technology. Banker Gerald Hardcastle (Niven) and his wife Prudence (Kerr) are unhappily married. Gerald has a mistress and Prudence is having an affair with her doctor. Though Prudence is on the pill, Gerald switches her medication in the hopes that she will get pregnant to Alan, which means he would no longer have to keep his own relationship a secret. Meanwhile, three other couples - the Hardcastle's maid and chauffeur, Gerald's brother and his wife and Gerald's neice and her boyfriend - all want to try the pill for themselves but their secretiveness and scheming leads to more pill-switching and a number of possible pregnancies.

Prudence is on the pill; so is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teen-age niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband, or all of the above?

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