Every Home Should Have One

**Every Home Should Have One** is a pre-cert UK VHS release by Thorn EMI Video on April 1982.

## Description

Possessing a genuinely comic appearance which is matched by a considerable talent for farce, Marty Feldman is one of the world's natural clowns. He is also gifted comedy writer. In Every Home Should Have One (1970), his first major film, he brings both aspects of his talent to the screen. He plays a naive but keen advertising man who is more than somewhat bewildered when his boss gives him the assignment of providing a new - and sexy - image to a stodgy brand of frozen porridge. In his search for a solution to the probllem, he is advised to 'think dirty' by a colleague, a process that results in a series of very funny erotic dreams. From then on he finds himself in conflict with his wife, involved with the Clean-Up TV Committee, and caught up in a nationwide search for Miss Goldilocks, the dream girl he hopes will sponsor his succesful advertising campaign. The hilarious script is the work of three of Britain's most brilliant comedy writers: Barry Took and Feldman himself, who were responsible for the immensely popular radio show, Round the Horne (now regarded as a classic of its kind), and Dennis Norden, who contributed to the equally famous series, Take It From Here and Looks Familiar. The Story provides the perfect vehicle for Feldman's wild talents, allowing him to shine in several fantasy sequences - most memorably as the sort of Dracula that would make Christopher Lee turn in his crypt! Jim Clark, making his debut as a director of feature films, never loses sight of the strong and entertaining story-line. Meanwhile, the most absurd situations are allowed to develop, ensuring that the satire on the advertising and television industries and their critics never misses. The well-known comic actors Patrick Cargill, Shelley Berman, and Penelope Keith assist in the antics, while the lovely Julie Ege, playing the ad man's dream, adds a delightful touch of glamour. In 1969 Marty Feldman won the BAFTA award for his television series Marty, and after making this film, moved on to Hollywood and a career as a writer, actor and director. His most notable appearances since then have been in Young Frankenstein and Silent Movie, both made with Mel Brooks. No one should miss the opportunity of seeing him in action! ALAN FRANK

## Plot

An advertising man is assigned by his boss to come up with a sexy new image for porridge. While his wife runs a clean-up-TV campaign organized by the local vicar, he has an affair with the au-pair girl.

## Cast

* Marty Feldman as Teddy Brown
* Judy Cornwell as Liz Brown
* Garry Miller as Richard Brown
* Shelley Berman as Nat Kaplan
* Hy Hazell as Mrs. Kaplan
* Julie Ege as Inga Giltenburg
* Penelope Keith as Lotte von Gelbstein
* Moray Watson as Chandler
* Jack Watson as McLaughlin
* Mark Elwes as Rokes
* Harold Innocent as Jimpson
* Dinsdale Landen as Reverend Geoffrey Mellish
* John McKelvey as Colonel Belper
* Charles Lewsen as Arthur Soames
* Maggie Jones as Hetty Soames
* Ellis Dale as Leonard Crape
* Frances de la Tour as Maude Crape
* Patrick Cargill as Wallace Trufitt, MP
* Patience Collier as Mrs. Monty Levin
* Ray Fell as Goldilocks Presenter
* Annabel Leventon as Chandler's secretary
* Mischa de la Motte as Trufitt's manservant
* Veronica Clifford as Hot Dog Girl
* Diana Quiseekay as Elvira
* Vicki Hodge as Pippa
* Sarah Badel as Joanna Snow
* John Wells as Tolworth
* Michael Bates as Magistrate
* John Hamill as Porridge Eater #1
* Robert Farrant as Porridge Eater #2
* Kenny Rodway as Porridge Eater #3
* Dave Dee as Wednesday Play Star
* Judy Huxtable as *Frankenstein* Heroine
* Rose Hill as Shopping Woman #1
* Winnie Holman as Shopping Woman #2
* Bernard Sharpe as Shopping Man
* Roland Curram as Arthur and Mario
* David Hutcheson as Stockbroker
* Jack Arrow as TV Show Audience Member #1 (uncredited)
* Ann Barrass as TV Show Audience Member #2 (uncredited)
* Ian Sebly as TV Show Audience Member #3 (uncredited)
* Roy Beck as Passer-by (uncredited)
* Alan Bennett as Defence Solicitor (uncredited)
* Erika Bergmann as Hildegarde (uncredited)
* Fiona Curzon as Actress (uncredited)
* Geraldine Gardner as Girl (uncredited)
* Sheila Gish as Mother in TV Commercial (uncredited)
* Christopher Godwin as Magistrates' clerk (uncredited)
* David Lee as Ern (uncredited)
* James Payne as Taxi Driver with the Dwarfs (uncredited)
* Marianne Stone as TV Production Assistant No. 1 (uncredited)

## Credits

* Directed by Jim Clark
* Assistant Directors - Allan James and Grania O'Shannon
* Art Director - Roy Stannard
* Casting Director - Thelma Graves
* Produced by Ned Sherrin
* Associate Production - Terry Glinwood
* Photographed by Ken Hodges, BSC
* Processed by Humphries Laboratories
* Edited by Ralph Sheldon
* Sound Editor - Jim Sibley
* Costume Designers - Daphne Dare and Michael Fish (Marty Feldman's clothes)
* Production Manager - Pat Green
* Camera Operator - George Minassian
* Sound Recorders - Buster Ambler and Nolan Roberts
* Continuity by Barbara Rowland
* Make-Up Artist - Richard Mills
* Hairdressing by Jeanette Freeman
* Titles and Animation - Walter Lantz Productions
* Made in Association with British Lion Films Ltd
* Produced at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England

## References

* "Every Home Should Have One – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". *Radio Times*.
* "Think Dirty (1970) - Jim Clark - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". *AllMovie*.
* Harper, Sue (2011). *British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure*. Edinburgh University Press. p. 269.
* "BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE ONE (1970)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Retrieved 22 January 2014.