Every Home Should Have One is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Jim Clark and starring Marty Feldman.[1] It was released in the United States in theatres and on home video under the title Think Dirty.[2]
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Directed by | Jim Clark |
Written by | Herbert Kretzmer Milton Shulman |
Screenplay by | Herbert Kretzmer Barry Took Marty Feldman |
Based on | Every Home Should Have One by
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Produced by | Ned Sherrin |
Starring | Marty Feldman Judy Cornwell Shelley Berman |
Cinematography | Ken Hodges |
Edited by | Ralph Sheldon |
Music by | John Cameron |
Color process | Eastmancolor |
Production companies | Example Productions Ltd British Lion Films Ltd |
Distributed by | British Lion Films Ltd |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The overall concept is in direct ridicule of the then ongoing campaign by Mary Whitehouse on gratuitous sex in advertising and other fields. Certain sections such as the parish council watching entire programmes by which they are offended by to count the offensive incidents, parodies Mary Whitehouse's infamous behaviour of the time.
An advertising man is assigned by his boss to come up with a sexy new image for Mrs McLaughlin's Frozen Porridge. While his wife runs a clean-up-TV campaign organized by the local vicar, he has an affair with the au-pair girl.[3]
The overall concept is that adverts play out before their lives connecting to the products to hand.
The various porridge advertising campaigns get more and more extreme: the most relevant being the Goldilocks and the Three Bears campaign. This leads to a secondary campaign to search for "Miss Goldilocks".
The film's titles and animated sequences were provided by Richard Williams.[3]
The film was produced at Shepperton Studios in England.[4]
The feature's theme song, "Every Home Should Have One", was written by John Cameron, Caryl Brahms, and Ned Sherrin, arranged by Alan Tew, produced by Jackie Rand, and sung by Millicent Martin.[3] The song was released as a single to promote the film.[5]
The film was one of the most popular movies in 1970 at the British box office.[6]