Games That Lovers Play (film)

Games That Lovers Play (U.S. titles: Lady Chatterley Versus Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley vs Fanny Hill) is a 1971 British softcore comedy film written and directed by Malcolm Leigh and starring Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms and Richard Wattis.

The US title and the names of the female lead characters reference the 1748 erotic novel Fanny Hill  and D. H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, which had been the subject of a celebrated obscenity trial in 1960. The film's plot is unrelated to either novel.

Cast

 * Joanna Lumley as Fanny Hill
 * Penny Brahms as Constance Chatterley
 * Richard Wattis as Lothran
 * Jeremy Lloyd as Jonathan Chatterley
 * Diane Hart as Mrs Hill
 * Nan Munro as Lady Evelyn Chatterley
 * John Gatrell as Bishop
 * Charles Cullum as Charles
 * Leigh Anthony as timekeeper
 * George Belbin as Major Thrumper
 * June Palmer as girl
 * Graham Armitage as Mr Adams
 * Harold Bennett as photographer
 * Sydney Arnold as butler
 * Colin Cunningham as usher
 * Roy Stewart as Mr Bwamba
 * Michael Travers as club porter
 * Deborah Bishop as Lothran's fluffer

Production
In 2018, Joanna Lumley revealed she felt pressured to strip for this movie.

Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Hardly a plea for sexual tolerance, this lightweight sex comedy derives its humour largely from double entendre and sexual deviations, notably transvestism. On the premise that if one man in drag is funny then forty will be hilarious, a Drag Ball is staged – to the detriment of Jeremy Lloyd who, unlike the other guests (played by authentic drag queens) merely looks like a man dressed up as a woman and can do nothing with a part that makes him a prude as well as a lecher. ...The sense of period, conscientiously attempted by means of every style of decor from antique to art nouveau, is broken by the contemporary look of the actors which adds a final veneer of unreality to an already vacuous story."