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Prudence and the Pill is a 1968 British comedy film made by Twentieth Century-Fox. 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 1965 novel. [3]
With Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote, Irina Demick. Wealthy London banker Gerald Hardcastle, his wife Prudence, his mistress, and his family and servants all get involved in comic hi-jinks when they swap birth-control medicines in an effort to deceive each other.
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- Fielder Cook, Ronald Neame
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- Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote
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Prudence and the Pill. ‧ 1968. Roger Ebert. September 10, 1968. 3 min read. There was a kid at summer camp named Mole who wrote letters home in progressively smaller handwriting.
A British couple (Deborah Kerr, David Niven) and other lovers are fooled by aspirin secretly swapped for birth-control pills.
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- Fielder Cook, Ronald Neame
- R
- Comedy
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill. David Niven substitutes aspirin for his wife's (Deborah Kerr) birth control medicine, hoping that she will become pregnant by her lover (Keith Mitchell) -- thereby freeing him to dally with his mistress (Irina Demich).
