Mistress Pamela

1974 British film by Jim O'Connolly

  • November 1973 (1973-11) (UK release)
Running time
91 minCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

Mistress Pamela is a 1973 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp.[1] It is loosely based on the 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson.[2]

Plot

In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master, a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.

Cast

  • Ann Michelle as Pamela Andrews
  • Julian Barnes as Lord Robert Devenish
  • Dudley Foster as Jonathan
  • Anna Quayle as Mrs Jelks
  • Anthony Sharp as Longman
  • Rosemarie Dunham as Mistress Blimper
  • Derek Fowlds as Sir Percy
  • Ken Parry as Parson
  • Fred Emney as Dr Livesey
  • Frederic Abbott as John Andrews
  • Marianne Stone as Katie

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "What the makers clearly had in mind was Carry On Tom Jones [1963]."[3]

Time Out wrote, "Richardson's 18th century classic Pamela clearly dredged up for its bawdy possibilities ... About all the film has in common with the original is a notable lack of humour."[4]

References

  1. ^ "Mistress Pamela". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Mistress Pamela". BFI. Archived from the original on 15 January 2009.
  3. ^ "Miss Pamela". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 40 (468): 253. 1 January 1973 – via ProQuest.
  4. ^ "Mistress Pamela". Time Out London.

External links

  • Mistress Pamela at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Mistress Pamela then-and-now location photographs at ReelStreets
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