Keep It Up, Jack

Keep It Up, Jack is a 1974 British sex comedy film directed by Derek Ford and starring Mark Jones and Sue Longhurst.^[1] It was written by Ford and Alan Selwyn, and produced by Michael L. Green.

Keep It Up, Jack
Directed by	Derek Ford
Screenplay by	Alan Selwyn Derek Ford
Produced by	Michael L. Green
Starring	Mark Jones Sue Longhurst Linda Regan Frank Thornton Queenie Watts Paul Whitsun-Jones Maggi Burton Steve Veidor Jennifer Westbrook
Cinematography	Geoff Glover
Edited by	Pat Foster
Music by	Terry Warr
Production company	Blackwater Films
Distributed by	Variety Film Distributors
Release date	27 March 1974 (1974-03-27) (United Kingdom)
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Jack James is an unsuccessful music hall entertainer and drag artist who inherits a brothel from his late aunt, and impersonates her in order to seduce the female clients.

Cast

• Mark Jones as Jack
• Sue Longhurst as Virginia
• Linda Regan as Gloria
• Frank Thornton as Mr. Clarke
• Queenie Watts as charlady
• Paul Whitsun-Jones as Mr. Fairbrother
• Maggi Burton as Fleur
• Steve Veidor as Muscles
• Jennifer Westbrook as Caroline

Production

The film also exists in a version with hardcore inserts, but there is no suggestion that any of the credited cast participated in it.^[2]

In 2022 Dark Force Entertainment released the longer, hardcore version of the film on blu-ray.

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "An extended series of charades, played round a none too substantial comic theme. The plot is left to totter haphazardly from one situation to the next, while Mark Jones zips through from one costume change to the next, displaying commendable physical facility but scarcely one memorable personality amongst all the opportunities provided. When out of drag, he comes across as a close impersonation of Norman Wisdom."^[3]