Keep It Up Downstairs

Keep It Up Downstairs (also known as Can You Keep It Up Downstairs? and My Favorite Butler), is a 1976 British period sex comedy film, directed by Robert Young and starring Diana Dors, Jack Wild and William Rushton.

Plot
The film follows the adventures of the sex-crazed inhabitants of the bankrupt Cockshute Castle in 1904, and the attempts of Lord and Lady Cockshute to find a rich wife for their uninterested inventor son Peregrine.

Cast

 * Diana Dors as Daisy Dureneck
 * Jack Wild as Peregrine Cockshute
 * William Rushton as Snotty Shuttleworth
 * Aimi MacDonald as Christabelle St. Clair
 * Françoise Pascal as Mimi
 * Neil Hallett as Percy Hampton
 * Mark Singleton as Lord Cockshute
 * Julian Orchard as Bishop
 * Simon Brent as Rogers
 * Sue Longhurst as Lady Cockshute
 * John Blythe as Francis Dureneck
 * Carmen Silvera as Lady Bottomley
 * Seretta Wilson as Betsy-Ann Dureneck
 * Anthony Kenyon as Mellons
 * Olivia Munday as Lady Kitty Cockshute
 * April Olrich as Duchess
 * Sally Harrison as Maud
 * Mary Millington as Polly

Production
It was shot at Elstree Studios and on location at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. A version exists with hardcore inserts; these were shot with body doubles for the main stars.

Music
The score was by Michael Nyman, his first for a commercially released film.

Critical response
Monthly Film Bulletin said "A joyless 'romp' that is soporifically heavy-handed with its phallic imagery and double meanings (endless references to "big ones" and "getting it off"), Keep It Up Downstairs bungles the tempting possibility of a ribald melange of Upstairs Downstairs and The Go-Between [1971] school of sensitive historical drama. The cast, required to bare breasts and buttocks at regular intervals, is able to make no headway against the inane script and consistently mistimed direction."