Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema

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It’s a niche market, but if you’re looking for a unique historical critique on British film, with a wry sense of humor, look no further than Keeping the British End Up. Sheridan compiles a definitive filmography for the very first time, and coaxes the facts from previously reclusive and reluctant interviewees.

The cover, sans book jacket, has lovely painted pictures of the various women of the films, and if you want to display the book I’d do so like this (it’s less risqué than the dust jacket itself). Paid subscribers receive all four newsletters a month – in May, we visited Crete and followed in Bond’s tyre treads through Glencoe in the Highlands while I sang ‘Skyfall’ VERY LOUDLY.While a few are worth reading, it is really for those who want a comprehensive knowledge of every film made. In 1983, Moore was faced with a rival non-Eon Bond film but he was unfazed, “ Never Say Never Again began and the British paper had the headline ‘The Battle of the Bonds’, which was picked up everywhere. The favourite of all the books I’ve written in my career is, unquestionably, Keeping The British End Up, first published in 2001, and subsequently reprinted three more times in different editions.

I’d written, in my neat childish hand: “If I could be any famous real person I would be Roger Moore, because in some of my favourite movies Roger Moore plays the lead role. At this significant period in British history when issues of national and political identity are at the forefront of national consciousness, the release of another film starring what the Telegraph referred to as 'Britain's favourite spy' merits particular critical attention. It’s always been my dream to turn the book into a film and, for the past few months, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. He was sometimes his chief detractor but explained, “Listen, if I say I'm shit as an actor, then the critic can't, because I've already said it!In fact, the British sex comedy and Moore's Bond films were quite similar in that they were a mix of slapstick, sexy birds and a heavy dose of British repression. On its own, Keeping the British End Up is a beautifully put-together coffee table book, if you don’t have children. In this article, we question the modalities of representation of the geopolitical upheavals that have occurred since the early 1990s in Western spy cinema. With that, I’ve always found books about the history of sex on film to be fascinating, so I had a lot of fun with author Simon Sheridan’s Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema.