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The Love Box - Wikipedia

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The Love Box
Theatrical release quad poster
Directed by	Tudor Gates Wilbur Stark (as Billy and Teddy White)
Written by	Tudor Gates Wilbur Stark
Produced by	Tudor Gates Wilbur Stark executive Barry Jenkins
Cinematography	Grenville Middleton
Edited by	Rex Graves
Music by	Mike Vickers
Production company	Short Circuit
Release date	1 October 1972 (1972-10-01)
Running time	91 mins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£28,000^[1]

The Love Box, also known as Lovebox, is a 1972 British sex comedy film. It was written, produced and directed by Tudor Gates and Wilbur Stark under the pseudonyms "Billy and Teddy White".^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot

Tris Patterson runs a classified ads section called "Love Box" for an entertainment guide magazine. The ads provide the settings for eleven separate self-contained sex comedies:

Peter the virgin
The sex kittens
The young wives' club
Massage wanted
The trade descriptions act
The refined couple
The wife swappers
Orgy in Kilburn
The bored housewife
Trying new colours
The love park

Cast

In the magazine office

Chris Williams as Tris Patterson
Alison King as Margery
Simon Legree as Rod
Maureen Flanagan as Helen

Peter the virgin

Maggie Wright as Mrs Angela Simpson
Paul Aston as Peter
Christine Bradwell as Miss Harvey

The sex kittens

John Mattocks as tom cat
Lizbeth Lindeborg as blonde kitten
Minerva Smith as brunette kitten

The young wives' club

Jane Cardew as Fran
Leonora Little as stripper
Anthony Bailey as Jock
Rosemary Burdon as club member
Lita Petrou as club member
Julia Breck as club member

Massage wanted

Elaine Baillie as the masseuse
Basil Clarke as old man

The trade descriptions act

Raymond Young as the official
Anne Henning as Gerda
Jennifer Guy as student

The refined couple

Peter Burton as Charles
Alison King as Margery

The wife swappers

Freddie Earlle as Bill
Marianne Morris as Janet
Charlie Miller as Harry
Cheryl Gilham as Sally

Orgy in Kilburn

Emmet Hennessy as Martin/boy
Dick Hayden as John
Georgina Symonds-Rose as Kit
Trudi Blue as Sandra

The bored housewife

Joan Alcorn as Kathy
Craig Israel as Texan
Dave Carter as husband

Trying new colours

Simon Legree as Rod
Minah Bird as black girl
Pauline Anderson as Eskimo
Vivienne as Chinese girl
Kerima as Indian girl

The love park

Laurie Goode as boy
Emmett Hennessy as boy
Nicola Austine as girl
Sue Bowen as girl
Jeanette Marsden as girl
Rina Brown as girl
Liz Carlson as girl

Production

It was the first film from a production company set up by Tudor Gates, and was originally called Looking for Love. In his interview for the British Entertainment History Project Gates states that he was nervous about the film's reception, so he and co-director Stark adopted the pseudonyms "Billy and Teddy White".^[1]

Reception

Box office

Gates said the film was "very successful of its kind and it did make money for us."^[1]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A number of potentially funny situations go sadly to waste in this essentially witless offering. The makers have settled for an 'illustrative' style that reduces every episode to predictable routine, while the attempts at humorous dialogue never rise above the level of smutty double entendre. ('Are you glad you came?' – 'I wasn't sure I could'). Out of a crowded gallery of one-dimensional characters, three performances suggest talents worthy of less limp material: those of Alison King as Margery, of Paul Astor as Peter, and of Maggie Wright, who exudes sensuality and even manages to wring some humour out of her role as Mrs. Simpson. (The number of topical references leaves little doubt that the name is a sly joke in very poor taste.) Directors contemplating this episodic style of sex-comedy might profitably take a look at The Secrets of Sex since, even in the film's censored version, Antony Balch gave a lead which has still to be taken up."^[5]

The Spinning Image said: "this is tat, really, but for a glimpse of seventies Britain it is more revealing than many a documentary."^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Fowler, Roy; Giesler, Rodney (26 November 2003). "Interview with Tudor Gates - Side Five". British Entertainment History Project.
^ "The Love Box". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ "Unnamed". Evening Post. 30 September 1972. p. 2.
^ Hunt, Leon (1998). British low culture : from safari suits to sexploitation. Routledge. p. 94.
^ "The Love Box". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 39 (456): 236. 1 January 1972 – via ProQuest.
^ Clark, Graeme. "The Love Box - review". The Spinning Image. Archived from the original on 11 October 2015.

External links

The Love Box at IMDb
The Love Box at Letterbox DVD
The Love Box at BFI

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