Cool It, Carol! * (1970, Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn, Jess Conrad, Stubby Kaye, Pete Murray, Eric Barker ) – Classic Movie Review 10,486

‘Oversexed and Under Age! She Raises More Than Eyebrows!’

Director Pete Walker’s low-budget 1970 British sex comedy-drama Cool It, Carol! is inspired by a tabloid article the director read in the News of the World, is written by Murray Smith, and stars Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn, Jess Conrad and Stubby Kaye. There are also ‘special guest appearances’ by Stubby Kaye, Pete Murray and Eric Barker. The opening credits state: ‘This story is true but actual names and places are fictitious’.

Askwith and Janet Lynn play naïve young Joe Sickles and Carol Thatcher, who come to swinging London for fame and fortune, but Joe fails to find work, though Carol trues to become a fashion model, and they are drawn into a world of pornography, drugs and prostitution.

It was released by American International Pictures in the US as Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met.

A blatant sexploitation romp, it has an interesting cast, lots of sex scenes, lots of Sixties detail and flavour, and plenty of nostalgia appeal.

The cast are Robin Askwith as Joe Sickles, Janet Lynn as Carol Thatcher, Jess Conrad as Jonathan, Stubby Kaye as Rod Strangeways, Derek Aylward as Tommy Sanders, Kenneth Hendel as Pimp, Stephen Bradley as Terry, Harry Baird as Benny Gray, Chris Sandford as David Thing, Peter Elliot as Philip Stanton, Pete Murray as Himself, Eric Barker as Signalman, Pearl Hackney as Carol’s mother Mrs Thatcher, and Martin Wyldeck as Father.

As Askwith celebrates his 70th birthday on 12 October 2020, the film celebrates the 50th anniversary of its release on 1 December 2020.

Askwith went on to make Four Dimensions of Greta with Walker in 1972.

© Derek Winnert 2020 Classic Movie Review 10,486

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