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- BFI identifier8762
- Date1977 (Copyright)
1977-08-25 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisComedy. The staff of the Grace Bros. department store go on holiday for two weeks to the Costa Plonka in Spain whilst the store is closed for decoration. When they arrive at the hotel, the manager, Carlos Bernardo, tells them that their rooms will not be ready until the next day. They agree to be put up for the night in 'penthouses', but this turns out to be a misunderstanding and they are shown to a series of 'tent houses', or tents on the beach. Over dinner, the delivery of various secret, written romantic notes gets mixed up and so various people think they are being propositioned by others who have not in fact written the messages. That night, the confusion is compounded when people go to other people's tents for a supposed romantic liaison, only to find that they are not expected or that, for whatever reason, someone else is in the tent. Involved in these mix-ups are Bernardo's would-be revolutionary friend César Rodríguez, who longs for Mrs Slocombe (having seen her with a ravishing young body in what he does not realise is a joke photo taken at Blackpool), and hotel maid Conchita, hoping to hide in a tent as she fears Bernardo's nocturnal advances. The next morning, as Rodríguez's army have been unable to cross the border, he and his small cohort come under fire at the hotel and defiantly fight back. This violence interrupts the Grace Bros. workers' breakfast, who duly have to hide from the line of fire and devise a way to signal for help, which they manage to do using the advertising balloon over the hotel. A tank arrives, which turns out to be driven by 'Young' Mr Grace, the elderly owner of the shop, who has had to use this means of transport to travel from the airport. (Synopsis)
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- CastJohn Inman (Mr Humphries)
Mollie Sugden (Mrs Slocombe)
Frank Thornton (Captain Steven Peacock)
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Title
Are You Being Served? (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/60C5-34EA-530D-A67D-1C5A-ZCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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Ephemera: publicity - PBS-8762
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-8762
ROBERT AND BARBARA CLARK - ARE YOU BEING SERVED? (GB,1977) [Wardrobe - Babs Gray] RBC/82/1 Unit List; Shooting schedule, 31 March 1977; Call Sheets, 19 - 22 April, 1977; Movement order, 19 April 1977; Plan of Gatwick airport; RBC/82/2 6 Publicity stills [Including John Inman, Arthur English, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Arthur Brough and other cast members] SPECTRE (US,1977) [Wardrobe mistress - Babs Gray] RBC/83/1 Unit and Cast lists; Call sheet, 4 February 1977; Shooting Schedules, 22 - 31 December 1976; Casting advice for Gordon Jackson and John Hurt, 7 December 1976; Telephone list; List of creatures and make-up/costume requirements; Partial Costume measurements list; Petty cash voucher for hire of ironing equipment; RBC/83/2 3 costume/makeup stills of 'creatures'; Signed publicity stills of Gig Young and Robert Culp. RBC/83/3 Letter from Twentieth Century Fox Productions Ltd to Babs Gray outlining terms of engagement as Wardrobe mistress, 25 November 1976; Pay slips RBC/83/4 Blank notepaper and envelope with 'SPECTRE' production logo. STEVIE (US,GB,1978) [Wardrobe supervisor - Babs Gray] RBC/84/1 Unit & Cast list; Call sheets, 19-31 January 1978; Breakdown of scenes; RBC/84/2 Itemised list of costume items purchased from petty cash; Small bundle of receipts; Note to Babs Gray from 'Patsy' about work on one of Glenda Jackson's costumes; Postcard of John Wood costume sketch for Saturninus in Titus Andronicus, with note about costume purchase from 'Patsy'; RBC/84/3 Publicity still of Trevor Howard and Alec McCowen; Signed publicity still of Mona Washbourne; KILLER FISH (BR,IT,US,1978) RBC/85/1 8 Production stills (including Lee Majors and Margaux Hemingway' Publicity still of Marisa Berenson. The PEREGRINE HUNTERS (GB,1978) [Wardrobe mistress - Babs Gray] RBC/86/1 Unit and cast lists; Call sheet, 1 September 1977. The BIG SLEEP (GB,1978) RBC/87/1 4 Publicity stills [Featuring Robert Mitchum, John Mills, Richard Todd, James Stewart and Joan Collins The BOYS FROM BRAZIL (US,1978) RBC/88/1 25 Production/publicity stills [ featuring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer and other cast members] Les MISERABLES (US,1978) [Director - Glenn Jordan] RBC/89/1 5 Production stills; HANOVER STREET (GB,1979) RBC/90/1 4 Production stills of London street scene before and after bombing; Newscutting about the construction of Hanover street on the backlot at Elstree and recreation of the blitz, 1978. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (US,1979) RBC/91/1 3 Production stills - ITM-17782
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