The Love Ban | |
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Directed by | Ralph Thomas |
Based on | the play It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World by Kevin Laffan |
Produced by | Betty E. Box |
Starring | Hywel Bennett Nanette Newman Angharad Rees |
Cinematography | Tony Imi |
Edited by | Roy Watts |
Music by | Stanley Myers |
Production company | Welbeck Films |
Distributed by | British Lion Films |
Release date | 25 January 1973 |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £98,121[1] |
Box office | £110,093[1] |
The Love Ban, also known as It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World and Anyone for Sex?, is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Hywel Bennett, Nanette Newman and Milo O'Shea.[2]
A married couple with six children experience marital difficulties. Wife Kate refuses to sleep with husband Mick until he uses birth control, while their live-in au-pair falls pregnant.
The film was based on the 1969 play by Kevin Laffan, It's a 2'6" Above the Ground World. Laffan was one of 14 children from a devout Roman Catholic family and his critical view on the Church's stance on birth control was a recurring theme of his work. The play starred Prunella Scales in a production at the Bristol Old Vic, and was a hit, moving to the Wyndham's Theatre.[3][4][5][6]
The film was shot at Shepperton Studios with sets designed by the art director Anthony Pratt.