Prudence and the Pill
Prudence and the Pill is a 1968 British comedy film made by Twentieth CenturyFox. It was directed by Fielder Cook and Ronald Neame and produced by Kenneth Harper and Ronald J. Kahn from a screenplay by Hugh Mills, based on his own novel. The music score was by Bernard Ebbinghouse and the cinematography by Ted Moore.
The film portrays the conflicting and comical attempts by five couples to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptive pills. All of their efforts are ultimately unsuccessful, with the result that all five of the women give birth the following year.The story revolves around a wealthy London banker named Gerald Hardcastle Niven and his wife Prudence Kerr, who live together unhappily, sleeping in separate bedrooms and speaking to each other only when necessary. The five couples in the film areGerald and his French mistress Elizabeth, or Liz Demick,Prudence and her doctor, Dr. Alan Hewitt Michell,the Hardcastless maid Rose Turner and their chauffeur Ted Armstrong,Geralds brother Henry Coote and his wife Grace Redman, andHenry and Graces daughter Geraldine Geeson and her boyfriend Tony Bates Dundas. ........
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