Suburban Wives

Suburban Wives
Suburban Wives
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Derek Ford
Written by	Derek Ford
Produced by	Morton Lewis
Starring	Eva Whishaw; Maggie Wright; Gabrielle Drake
Cinematography	Bill Holland; Roy Pointer
Edited by	Terry Keefe
Music by	Terry Warr
Distributed by	Butcher's Film Service
Release date	1971;
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Suburban Wives is a 1971 British sex comedy directed by Derek Ford and starring Eva Whishaw, Maggie Wright, and Gabrielle Drake.^[1]

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Newspaperwoman Sarah narrates a series of separate stories about the lives of various couples. Sarah describes a situation in which dissatisfied and bored middle-class housewives seek excitement and adventure outside their marital homes— and marital beds.

Eva Whishaw as Sarah
Barry Linehan as John's Boss
Heather Chasen as Kathy Lambert
Gabrielle Drake as secretary
Richard Thorp as Sarah's Husband
Robin Culver as photographer
Maggie Wright as Irene
Peter May as John
Claire Gordon as Sheila
Denys Hawthorne as George Lambert
Jane Cardew as Carole
Nicola Austin as Jean
Pauline Peart as Mavis
James Donnelly as Client
Paul Antrim as bookmaker

Monthly Film Bulletin said "An uneasy attempt to marry a thin veneer of pseudo-documentary to a series of O. Henry-ish but determinedly naughty tales, with the whole thing heavily laced by doses of nudity and titillation. With the possible exception of Kathy's story, nicely timed and beautifully acted by Heather Chasen, there is very little wit in evidence, and the film simply drags coyly on and on."^[2]

It was described by The New York Times as "a spicy satire of modern manners and mores."^[3]

According to Leon Hunt the film represents the suburban wives as both "banal and voracious, passive and rapacious, timid and uncontainable. The Daily Mirror described the characters as a "monstrous regiment of frustrated wives".^[4]

Stephanie Dennison sees it as an example of "soft-core porn films" that represent "naughty suburban housewives" as part of "democratization of female sexual desire".^[5]

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[1]
"Suburban Wives". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
[2]
"Suburban Wives". Monthly Film Bulletin. 39 (456): 37. 1972 – via ProQuest.
[3]
Hal Erickson, New York Times
[4]
Hunt, Leon, British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation, Routledge, 2013, p.104-6.
[5]
Dennison, Stephanie, "Sex and the Generals", Latsploitation, Latin America, and Exploitation Cinema, Routledge, 2009, p.243.

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[BFIsearch-1] [1]
"Suburban Wives". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 30 November 2023.

[2] [2]
"Suburban Wives". Monthly Film Bulletin. 39 (456): 37. 1972 – via ProQuest.

[3] [3]
Hal Erickson, New York Times

[hunt-4] [4]
Hunt, Leon, British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation, Routledge, 2013, p.104-6.

[5] [5]
Dennison, Stephanie, "Sex and the Generals", Latsploitation, Latin America, and Exploitation Cinema, Routledge, 2009, p.243.

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