Every Home Should Have One

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]

For the album by Patti Austin, see Every Home Should Have One (album).

Every Home Should Have One
Directed byJim Clark
Written byHerbert Kretzmer
Milton Shulman
Screenplay byHerbert Kretzmer
Barry Took
Marty Feldman
Based on
Every Home Should Have One
by
  • Herbert Kretzmer and
  • Milton Shulman
Produced byNed Sherrin
StarringMarty Feldman
Judy Cornwell
Shelley Berman
CinematographyKen Hodges
Edited byRalph Sheldon
Music byJohn Cameron
Color processEastmancolor
Production
companies
Example Productions Ltd
British Lion Films Ltd
Distributed byBritish Lion Films Ltd
Release date
  • 5 March 1970 (1970-03-05) (London)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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.

Plot

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".

Cast

Production

The film's titles and animated sequences were provided by Richard Williams.[3]

Filming

The film was produced at Shepperton Studios in England.[4]

Music

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]

Reception

The film was one of the most popular movies in 1970 at the British box office.[6]

However according to Sidney Gilliat who was on the board at British Lion, the film lost money[7]

References
  1. "Every Home Should Have One – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online". Radio Times.
  2. "Think Dirty (1970) - Jim Clark - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  3. "BFI | Film & TV Database | EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE ONE (1970)". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 16 April 2009. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  4. "Shepperton Studios". BFI. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016.
  5. "Millicent Martin - Every Home Should Have One" – via www.45cat.com.
  6. Harper, Sue (2011). British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure: The Boundaries of Pleasure. Edinburgh University Press. p. 269. ISBN 9780748654260.
  7. Fowler, Roy; Haines, Taffy (15 May 1990). "Interview with Sidney Gilliat" (PDF). British Entertainment History Project. p. 189.
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