''The Over-Amorous Artist'', re-released in 1975 as ''Just One More Time'', is a 1974

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short film, directed by Maurice Hamblin and starring John Hamill, Sue Longhurst and Hilary Pritchard.BFI
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Plot

While his beautiful wife Sue ( Sue Longhurst) is at work, Alan Street ( John Hamill), a budding portrait artist, has to fend off the advances of his sex crazed female neighbours, including Bev ( Hilary Pritchard), a middle-aged nymphomaniac, Carole (Claire Russell), a hippie girl, and married woman Fran (Geraldine Hart) and her daughter Barbara (Felicity Devonshire), Alan and Sue's babysitter.

Cast

* John Hamill ... Alan Street * Sue Longhurst ... Sue Street *

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... Indian Salesman * Hilary Pritchard ... Bev * Claire Russell ... Carole * Felicity Devonshire ... Barbara * Geraldine Hart ... Fran * Jan Adair ... Sandra * Marianne Morris ... Anne *

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... Postman * Fred Griffiths ... Window Cleaner * Debbie Monroe ... Au Pair * Bobby Sparrow ... Dancing Girl

Sequels

The film was followed by two sequels, also running around 50 minutes and both starring John Hamill as artist Alan Street. The first was ''Girls Come First'' in 1975, directed by Joseph McGrath (credited as Croisette Meubles). This played as a prequel to the original ( Sue Longhurst's character, Sue, was Street's girlfriend instead of his wife, and there is no mention of their young daughter Abigail), and was set mainly in a

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nightclub where Street is commissioned by owner Hugh Jampton (

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) to paint nude sketches of his female models for a magazine. The cast also included

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, Cheryl Gilham, Rikki Howard, Heather Deeley and future singer

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(credited as Hazel Glyn) in her first film role. The third film in the series was ''Under the Bed'' in 1977, directed by David Grant and set at a wedding party. Although Hamill reprised his role as Alan Street, Longhurst did not appear in this film, and the other cast members included Theresa Wood, Jayne Lester, Brian Godfrey, Lisa Taylor and Michael Cronin. This was also the only film in the series not to receive censorship cuts by the

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. The first two films in the series were later edited together into one feature length movie which was also released as ''Girls Come First'' (with ''The Over Amorous Artist'' comprising the second half of the film).

References

External links

* 1974 films 1970s English-language films British sex comedy films 1970s sex comedy films 1974 comedy films 1970s British films {{erotic-comedy-film-stub