Up in the Cellar ** (1970, Wes Stern, Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Judy Pace) – Classic Movie Review 10,441

Wes Stern stars as Colin Slade, a college boy with a winning way with women, in writer-director Theodore J Flicker’s cheap-looking, sometimes sharp satire on sex and social mores, the 1970 comedy Up in the Cellar. By way of twisted revenge, the suicidal college student Slade sets out to seduce his college president’s wife, daughter and mistress, after the university president saves him from suicide against his wishes.

It is interesting to look at the dated digs at the era’s society values and to see Joan Collins and Larry Hagman well before their days of soap opera super-stardom: they are excellent as Pat and Maurice Camber.

Theodore J Flicker’s screenplay is based on the novel The Late Boy Wonder by Angus Hall.

Dory Previn wrote the title song.

Also in the cast are Judy Pace as Harlene, David Arkin, Catlin Adams [Nira Barab], Bill Svanoe, Charles Pinney, David Cargo and Joan Darling.

It is a less successful follow-up to the hit Three in the Attic (1968). Production company/ distributors American International Pictures said it was ‘as near a sequel to Three in the Attic as possible. It was later re-titled Three in the Cellar and re-released in a double bill with Three in the Attic.

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