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((Short description|1975 British film by Martin Campbell))
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((Infobox film
| name           = Eskimo Nell
| image          = Eskimo Nell FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption        = 
| director       = [[Martin Campbell]]
| based_on       = An idea by Stanley Long
| producer       = [[Stanley Long]]
| writer         = 
| screenplay     = [[Michael Armstrong (filmmaker)|Michael Armstrong]]
| narrator       = 
| starring       = ((ubl|[[Roy Kinnear]]|[[Anna Quayle]]|[[Katy Manning]]|[[Christopher Timothy]]|[[Michael Armstrong (cinematographer)|Michael Armstrong]]|[[Terence Edmond]]|[[Rosalind Knight]]|[[Diane Langton]]|[[Richard Caldicot]]|[[Christopher Biggins]]))
| music          = [[Simon Park]]
| cinematography = [[Peter Hannan (cinematographer)|Peter Hannan]]
| editing        = 
| studio         = Salon Productions
| distributor    = 
| released       = 17 January 1975
| runtime        = 85 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = 
))

'''''Eskimo Nell ('''''also known as '''''The Ballad of Eskimo Nell''''' and '''''The Sexy Saga of Naughty Nell and Big Dick'''''), is a 1975 [[United Kingdom|British]] [[sex comedy]] film directed by [[Martin Campbell]] and starring [[Roy Kinnear]] and [[Christopher Timothy]].<ref name="BFIsearch">((Cite web |title=Eskimo Nell |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150036712 |access-date=3 December 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search))</ref> It was produced by  [[Stanley Long]]. Though inspired by "[[The Ballad of Eskimo Nell]]", the movie owes little to the original bawdy song. Long called it "my definitive statement about the sex films".<ref name="behp">((cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/stanley-long|website=British Entertainment History Project|title=Stanley A Long Side 5|date=24 November 1999))</ref>

==Plot==
Budding film director Dennis Morrison, producer Clive Potter, and screenwriter Harris Tweedle are hired by seedy [[erotic film]] producer Benny U. Murdoch to make a dirty movie based on the poem "The Ballad of Eskimo Nell". However they run into difficulty when each of the production's backers want a completely different style of film made. Then Murdoch makes off with the money and the three have to produce four different versions of the movie to keep everybody happy – a [[gay]] [[Western (genre)|Western]], a hardcore porno, a [[Kung Fu]]-style musical, and a wholesome family production.

==Cast==
((div col|colwidth=22em))
* [[Roy Kinnear]] as Benny U. Murdoch
* [[Anna Quayle]] as Reverend Mother
* [[Katy Manning]] as Hermione
* [[Christopher Timothy]] as Harris Tweedle
* [[Michael Armstrong (cinematographer)|Michael Armstrong]] as Dennis Morrison
* [[Terence Edmond]] as Clive Potter
* [[Rosalind Knight]] as Lady Longhorn
* [[Diane Langton]] as Gladys Armitage
* [[Richard Caldicot]] as Ambrose Cream
* [[Beth Porter]] as Billie Harris
* [[Christopher Biggins]] as Jeremy
* [[Gordon Tanner]] as Big Dick
* [[Jonathan Adams (British actor)|Jonathan Adams]] as Lord Coltwind
* [[Lloyd Lamble]] as The Bishop
* [[Christopher Neil]] as Brendan
* [[Nicholas Young (actor)|Nicholas Young]] as Deadeye Dick
* [[Stephanie Cole]] as traffic warden (uncredited)
* [[Mary Millington]] as stripping traffic warden (uncredited)
((div col end))

==Background==
((More citations needed section|date=December 2023))

Many of the film's characters are based on real personalities of the time. Lady Longhorn and Lord Coltwind &mdash; the backers of the wholesome family version &mdash; are thinly veiled caricatures of [[Mary Whitehouse]] and [[Lord Longford]]. Benny U. Murdoch is loosely based on [[Tony Tenser]], head of Tigon films. A more obscure figure the film ridicules is Louis "Deke" M. Heyward, the [[London]] representative of AIP ([[American International Pictures]]), who had previously clashed with the film's writer Michael Armstrong in 1969 during the making of Armstrong's directing debut, ''[[The Haunted House of Horror]] (''1969). In ''Eskimo Nell'' Heyward is parodied as "Big Dick", a crass, foul-mouthed American producer from "A.W.P Films", and the backer of the hardcore porno version. A similar character had previously appeared in Armstrong's script for ''[[The Sex Thief]]'' (1973).

A pre-fame [[Mary Millington]], then just a jobbing actress and model using her married name Mary Maxted, has a small role in the film as a stripping traffic warden who auditions for a part in the film within a film.  Although Millington appears only fleetingly (with her audition sped up for comic effect), stills from her scene were used to publicize the film in magazines including ''Titbits''<ref>Titbits (No. 4613, 1–7 August 1974, "Eskimo Nell"</ref> and ''[[Cinema X]]''.

The film is not to be confused with Richard Franklin's 1975 film ''[[The True Story of Eskimo Nell]]'' which was released in the UK as ''Dick Down Under''. Campbell's film was re-titled ''The Sexy Saga of Naughty Nell and Big Dick'' in [[Australia]].

Long half financed with Eagle films. He was a director by then but let Martin Campbell direct because he "thought he was very talented". Long says the film is loosely based on fact and real people who were in the film industry.<ref name="behp"/>

== Critical reception ==
''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' wrote: <blockquote>On the face of it, just another cheap, fall-on-your-farce sexploitation comedy, stamped with the familiar British hallmarks of vulgarity, unsubtlety and mistimed slapstick. What distinguishes ''Eskimo Nell'' from others of its kind, however, is the ungentlemanly relish with which the entire cast and production crew attack the film's central targets – namely, the very system which sponsors cheap sexploitation comedies, and the philistines who beget them. Clearly there are some painful old scores to be settled in Wardour Street. Indeed, Roy Kinnear's lecherous mini-mogul, who sees movies in exclusively anatomical terms ("Look at those big charismas!"), is taken almost libellously from life, and there are other caricatures of Soho entrepreneurs sharp-edged enough to suggest that any resemblance to living persons is not entirely coincidental. Michael Armstrong's hit-and-miss script has, at its best, an equally authentic, fly-on-the-wall quality, and manages to steer clear of the more obvious plot clichés&nbsp;... Inevitably, the in-jokes are over-indulged (forgivably so in the case of Beth Porter's remarkable imitation of [[Judy Holliday]]), but the film's infectious air of gleeful vengeance and genuine satirical bite give it, against all the odds, a rare claim as a British comedy of the Seventies that is both funny and relevant.<ref>((Cite journal |date=1 January 1974 |title=Eskimo Nell |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305834712/A1064C6DD53A42BFPQ/1 |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=41 |issue=480 |pages=273 |via=ProQuest))</ref></blockquote>

== Home media ==

''Eskimo Nell'' was released in a 'special edition' DVD and Blu-ray on 16 February 2015, to celebrate its 40th anniversary (the film was originally released in London in January 1975). The new edition has been digitally re-mastered at [[Pinewood Studios]] and comes with several extra features including the original theatrical trailer (unseen since 1975), an audio commentary by the film's actor-writer [[Michael Armstrong (filmmaker)|Michael Armstrong]] and film historian Simon Sheridan, an 8-page booklet, plus an extensive stills gallery and a newly re-mastered version of Mary Millington's short 1974 film ''Wild Lovers''.((Citation needed|date=December 2023))

==References==
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==External links==
* ((IMDb title|0072953|Eskimo Nell))

((Martin Campbell))

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[[Category:British sex comedy films]]
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[[Category:Films directed by Martin Campbell]]
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