Keep It Up, Jack

1974 British film by Derek Ford

27 March 1974 (1974-03-27)

(United Kingdom)

17 November 1975 (1975-11-17)

(Denmark)

December 1975 (1975-12)

(USA)

25 November 1977 (1977-11-25)

(West Germany)

Running time

84 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Keep It Up, Jack is a 1974 British sex comedy film directed by Derek Ford and starring Mark Jones.^[1] It was produced by Michael L. Green.

Plot

Jack James is an unsuccessful music hall entertainer and drag artist who inherits a brothel from his late aunt, and impersonates her in order to seduce the female clients.

Cast

Mark Jones as Jack
Sue Longhurst as Virginia
Linda Regan as Gloria
Frank Thornton as Mr. Clarke
Queenie Watts as charlady
Paul Whitsun-Jones as Mr. Fairbrother
Maggi Burton as Fleur
Steve Veidor as Muscles
Jennifer Westbrook as Caroline

Production

The film also exists in a version with hardcore inserts, but there is no suggestion that any of the credited cast participated in it.^[2]

In 2022 Dark Force Entertainment released the longer, hardcore version of the film on blu-ray.

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "An extended series of charades, played round a none too substantial comic theme. The plot is left to totter haphazardly from one situation to the next, while Mark Jones zips through from one costume change to the next, displaying commendable physical facility but scarcely one memorable personality amongst all the opportunities provided. When out of drag, he comes across as a close impersonation of Norman Wisdom."^[3]

References

^ "Keep It Up, Jack". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ Sheridan,Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd
^ "Keep It Up, Jack". Monthly Film Bulletin. 41 (480): 74. 1974. ProQuest 1305830227 – via ProQuest.