I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight is a 1976 British sexploitation comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Barry Andrews, James Booth and Sally Faulkner. It was written by David McGillivray and Laurence Barnett.
Plot Jon Pigeon and Keith Furey, odd job man at a sex research institute, invent an electronic aphrodisiac. Their invention is stolen, and they attempt to retrieve it.
Cast
Barry Andrews as Jon Pigeon James Booth as S.J. Nutbrown Sally Faulkner as Cheryl Bascombe Ben Aris as Trampas B. Hildebrand Billy Hamon as Keith Furey Ronnie Brody as neighbour Freddie Earlle as cowboy Bob Godfrey as postman Marjie Lawrence as caretaker's wife Brian Murphy as caretaker Chic Murray as Fred Graham Stark as hotel M.C. Katya Wyeth as Wendy Rita Webb as tea lady Steve Amber as policeman Penny Croft as traffic warden Robert Dorning as man at party Mike Grady as boy scout Sally Harrison as woman on video tape Geraldine Hart as Mrs. Watchtower Bill Maelor-Jones as lecturer Juliette King as Heidi Andria Lawrence as Mrs. Nutbrown Gracie Luck as Mrs. Hildebrand Gennie Nevinson as Vera Marianne Stone as consultant Pat Astley as Barmaid Jeannie Collings as Sylvia Mary Millington as girl in sunglasses Andee Cromarty as party guest Monika Ringwald as party guest
Production The film was shot at Twickenham Studios.
Critical reception The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Yet another reworking of the male chauvinist's dream theme – the surefire aphrodisiac – lifted to a degree by an unusual hint of sophistication in the script, a decent caricature of a Teddy-rocker by Billy Hamon, and one modestly funny running gag in which a M*A*S*H-like tannoy periodically bleats out inane announcements in the background ('Coitus has started in Room 26 – please do not interrupt us!'). For the rest, however, the British sex-comedy formula is rigidly and tiresomely adhered to, complete with continuous sexual innuendo, pop-eyed double-takes, bouncing breasts and unconsummated couplings. In other words, the usual compendium of Anglo-Saxon hang-ups played for laughs – and losing."
Kim Newman wrote in Empire, "I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight has a classic fnarr-fnarr title and the worst male and female fashions of 1975 (no wonder characters are always trying to take their clothes off), and mixes excruciating comedy with a vaguely offensive plot about a raygun which turns repressed Britons into sex maniacs."
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