Prudence and the Pill
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Fielder Cook
Deborah Kerr
David Niven
Robert Coote
Irina Demick
Joyce Redman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Gerald and Prudence Hardcastle hardly talk to each other and have separate bedrooms. Gerald consoles himself with his mistress, Elizabeth, while Prudence is having an affair with her doctor, Alan Hewitt. Henry and Grace Hardcastle, Gerald's brother and sister-in-law, are most happily married, but their snug world is upset when Grace becomes pregnant as a result of daughter Geraldine's having substituted aspirin for her mother's birth control pills. Heeding Elizabeth's advice, Gerald decides to do the same with Prudence's pills, hoping she will become pregnant by Alan and get a divorce. His plan is foiled, however, by the family maid, Rose. Thinking Prudence's pills are real, Rose steals them and substitutes what she thinks are vitamins but actually are birth control pills given her by her boyfriend, Ted, the family chauffeur. When Rose rather than Prudence becomes pregnant, Gerald realizes the error and again substitutes aspirin for his wife's pills. Meanwhile, young Geraldine, having run out of pills, becomes pregnant by her boyfriend, Tony Bates, to the consternation of her parents and the delight of Tony's guardian, Lady Roberta Bates. Eventually Prudence does get pregnant by Alan, but her request for a divorce is rejected by Gerald, who has been deserted by Elizabeth. Later, learning that Elizabeth has already given birth to his child, Gerald happily agrees not to contest Prudence's suit, and all the couples celebrate with their babies.
Director
Fielder Cook
Cast
Deborah Kerr
David Niven
Robert Coote
Irina Demick
Joyce Redman
Judy Geeson
Keith Michell
Edith Evans
David Dundas
Vickery Turner
Hugh Armstrong
Peter Butterworth
Moyra Fraser
Annette Kerr
Harry Towb
Jonathan Lynn
Crew
Gordon Bond
Pamela Carlton
Fred Carter
Bernard Ebbinghouse
Kenneth Harper
Julie Harris
John Jarvis
Michael F. Johnson
Ronald J. Kahn
Kahn--harper
Robert Kindred
Errol Le Cain
Hugh Mills
Ted Moore
Ronald Neame
Bert Ross
Norman Savage
Tony Sforzini
Don Sharpe
Wilfred Shingleton
Ted Sturgis
Eileen Sullivan
Richard Williams
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Oxfordshire and Berkshire, England. Released in London in August 1968; running time: 92 min. Neame completed direction of the film following Fielder Cook's resignation.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring May 1968
Released in United States Spring May 1968
