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Keep It Up, Jack! (Original title)Keep It Up Jack (Help search title)Keep It Up, Jack (Help search title)
Dates: 1973 (Copyright), June 1974 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Derek Ford

Synopsis: Jack is an impersonator and quick change artist. When his aunt dies leaving him a brothel Jack decides to impersonate his aunt to run the business successfully. All goes well until he falls in love with one of the girls. He then decides to sell the brothel and unmask himself.

Genre:
Sex comedy

Subjects:
Brothels, Cross-dressers
Credits (27)
©: Blackwater Film Productions, Present: Blackwater Film Productions, Producer: Michael L. Green, Associate Producer: Alan Selwyn, Screenplay by: Derek Ford, Screenplay by: Alan Selwyn, Director of Photography: Geoff Glover, Camera Operator: Bill Paterson, Camera Operator: Anne Taylor, Colin Arthur, Camera Assistant: Tony Browning, Camera Assistant: David Budd, Camera Assistant: Colin Uttley, Ted Tucker, Editor: Pat Foster, Art Director: Bernard Sarron, Assistant to Art Director: Nick Redgrave, Processed in Eastmancolor at: Rank Film Laboratories, Music Composed & Directed by: Terry Warr, Sound Recordist: Trevor Carless, Sound Assistant: Mike Charman, Sound Assistant: Norman Brown, Ron Hart, Re-recorded at: De Lane Lea Studios, Dubbing Director: Doug Turner, Location Lighting by: T.A. McGuiness & Co. Ltd.
Cast (17)
Mark Jones (Jack James), Sue Longhurst (Virginia), Frank Thornton (Mr Clarke), Queenie Watts (char lady), Paul Whitsun-Jones (Mr Fairbrother), Steve Viedor (Muscles), Linda Regan (Gloria), Maggi Burton (Fleur), Jenny Westbrook (Caroline), Veronica Pieters (stagehand), Yvette Vanson (Sylvie), Juliet Groves (Lily), Marian Brown, Jan Foster (Marian), Gideon Kolb, Tony Kenyon, Bob Raymond (client)