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词条 Not Now, Comrade
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  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Critical reception

  4. Songs

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}{{Infobox film
| name = Not Now, Comrade
| image = "Not_Now,_Comrade"_(1976).jpg
| caption = British quad poster
| director = Ray Cooney
Harold Snoad
| based on = "Chase Me, Comrade" (play) by Ray Cooney
| producer = Martin C. Schute
| writer = Ray Cooney
| starring = Leslie Phillips
Windsor Davies
Carol Hawkins
| music = Harry Robertson (as Harry Robinson)
| cinematography = Jack Hildyard
| editing = Peter Thornton
| country = United Kingdom
| studio = Not Now Films (Independent)
| distributor = EMI (UK)
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1976}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| language = English
}}

Not Now, Comrade is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Ray Cooney. It was a follow-up to the similarly named 1973 farce Not Now, Darling. It featured a number of British comedy actors including Leslie Phillips, Windsor Davies, Don Estelle and Ian Lavender.[1] The film was shot at Elstree studios, and was intended as the second in a series of ‘Not Now’ movies, but box office returns for the film, unlike those of its predecessor, were disappointing.[2][3] Cooney also appears as the MI5 agent Mr Laver.

Plot

Russian ballet dancer Rudi Petrovyan wants to defect. Unable to reach the British embassy and pursued by the KGB, he hides out with, and falls for, stripper Barbara Wilcox. But Rudi's planned escape in the boot of a Triumph backfires when he climbs into the wrong car, and he ends up in the country home of unsuspecting naval Commander Rimmington (Leslie Phillips).

Cast

  • Leslie Phillips as Commander Rimmington
  • Roy Kinnear as Hoskins
  • Windsor Davies as Constable Pulford
  • Don Estelle as Bobby Hargreaves
  • Michele Dotrice as Nancy Rimmington
  • Ray Cooney as Mr. Laver
  • June Whitfield as Janet Rimmington
  • Carol Hawkins as Barbara Wilcox
  • Lewis Fiander as Rudi Petrovyan
  • Ian Lavender as Gerry Buss
  • Richard Marner as 1st Russian official
  • Michael Sharvell-Martin as 2nd Russian official

Critical reception

Ray Cooney's 1964 play Chase Me, Comrade was based on the 1961 defection of Rudolf Nureyev. First appearing in 1964 at the Theatre Royal, Windsor Cooney himself played Gerry Buss[4]. The play became a Whitehall farce running for 765 performances between 1964 and 1966. It was televised by the BBC's Laughter from the Whitehall in August 1964 [5] and again in December 1967[6]. Cooney published a 1966 novelisation of the play. In 1981 Dutch television transmitted a version of the play called Een Kus van een Rus'[7].

The British Comedy Guide called the film "a really delightful forgotten gem of British cinema comedy".[8] However, the Radio Times called it a "horrid comedy of errors," adding "for the sake of a hard-working cast, let's draw a discreet Iron Curtain over the whole charade";[9] while Time Out said it was "from the darkest days of British cinema, a farrago which began life as Cooney's Whitehall farce, Chase Me, Comrade."[10]

Coincidentally Dame Stella Rimington became Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996.

Songs

  • Not Now

Sung by Don Estelle

Lyric by Sammy Cahn

Composed by Walter Ridley

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44541|title=Not Now, Comrade|work=BFI}}
2. ^http://www.elstreestudios.co.uk/Film_tv/not_now_comrade.aspx
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://networkonair.com/features/2013/05/09/not-now-comrade/|title=Networkonair > Features > Not Now Comrade|publisher=}}
4. ^https://www.raycooney.co.uk/chase-me-comrade-cwiv
5. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6451744/
6. ^http://bufvc.ac.uk/screenplays/index.php/prog/1824
7. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457028/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/film/not_now_comrade/|title=Not Now, Comrade|publisher=}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/jrh86/not-now-comrade|title=Not Now, Comrade|author=David Parkinson|work=RadioTimes}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/not-now-comrade|title=Not Now, Comrade|work=Time Out London}}

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0074977}}

11 : 1976 films|1970s comedy films|British comedy films|British films|Films shot at Elstree Studios|English-language films|Films based on works by Ray Cooney|Films set in England|Films set in London|1970s spy films|Spy comedy films

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