Prudence And The Pill.

The film portrays the conflicting and comical attempts by five couples to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptive pills. The story revolves around a wealthy London banker named Gerald Hardcastle (Niven) and his wife Prudence (Kerr) The couples in the film are (1) Gerald and his French mistress Elizabeth, or "Liz" (Demick), (2) Prudence and her doctor, Dr. Alan Hewitt, (3) the Hardcastles's maid Rose (Turner) and their chauffeur Ted (Armstrong) All of the couples want to use a birth control pill called "Thenol",

Credits

Directed by
Ronald Neame, Fielder Cook
Written by
Hugh Mills
Cast
Irina Demick, Edith Evans, Lord David Dundas, Keith Michell, Michael Hordern, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote, Harry Towb, Joyce Redman
Cinematography
Ted Moore
Music
Bernard Ebbinghouse
Edited by
Norman Savage

Copyright

Complete catalog record
Prudence And The Pill. Kahn & Harper. Released By Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 92 Min., Sd., Color, 35 Mm. Screenplay By Hugh Mills, Based Upon His Novel. © Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.; 23may68; Lp35849.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record, copyright
  2. Wikidata · Q1215427 ↗