Fanny Hill (1983 film)

Fanny Hill is a 1983 British erotic comedy film directed by Gerry O'Hara and starring Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Shelley Winters. It is adapted from the novel Fanny Hill by John Cleland. It is also known as Sex, Lies and Renaissance.

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• Plot
• Cast
• Critical reception
• References

Plot

Poor country lass Fanny Hill sets off for London where she embarks on a series of sexual encounters in pursuit of wealth and happiness.

Cast

Lisa Foster - Fanny Hill (as Lisa Raines)

Oliver Reed - Edward Widdlecome

Wilfrid Hyde-White - Mr. Barville

Shelley Winters - Mrs Cole

Alfred Marks - Lecher

Paddie O'Neil - Mrs Brown

Barry Stokes - Charles (as Jonathan York)

Maria Harper - Phoebe

Vicki Scott - Polly (uncredited)

Lorraine Doyle - Martha (uncredited)

Angie Quick - Sarah (uncredited)

Susie Silvey - Jane (uncredited)

Harry Fowler - Beggar (uncredited)

Gordon Rollings - Beggar (uncredited)

Liz Smith - Mrs. Jones (uncredited)

Howard Goorney - Mr. Croft (uncredited)

Janet Henfrey - Lady in Intelligence Office (uncredited)

Critical reception

Time Out wrote, "a relatively large budget and some respectable names in the cast list, but this is still limp softcore flummery sold on the half-remembered notoriety of its purported 18th century source...Lawyer Reed and madam Winters, meanwhile, seem as though they have their teeth gritted in the hope that it will all be over soon."

Sky Movies wrote, "they should have made the script funnier, got Kenneth Williams and Joan Sims - and retitled it Carry On Fanny..."