| Hardcore | |
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| Directed by | James Kenelm Clarke |
| Written by | James Kenelm Clarke Michael Robson |
| Produced by | Brian Smedley-Aston |
| Starring | Fiona Richmond Anthony Steel Victor Spinetti Ronald Fraser |
| Cinematography | Mike Molloy |
| Music by | James Kenelm Clarke |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Hardcore (U.S. title:Fiona) is a 1977 Britishcomedy film directed byJames Kenelm Clarke and starringFiona Richmond,Anthony Steel,Victor Spinetti,Ronald Fraser andGraham Crowden.[1] It depicts a fictionalised account of the life of Richmond as a 1970s sex symbol. It was the first of two movies Anthony Steel made with Richmond.[2]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This is yet another unamusing British sex comedy which misuses all the talents involved. Clarke'sExposé [1976], which employed many of the same team, suggested that he might be able to bring some pace and panache to the sexploitation genre. This ill-conceived and unimaginative piece is particularly distressing therefore – a showcase for the talents of Ms. Richmond which seems to render her incapable of projecting any sort of interesting persona. Presumably the similarities between the real and the fictive Fiona were meant to amplify the titillation – a device which might have worked had the film been at all sure of its tone."[3]
TheRadio Times Guide to Films gave the film 1/5 stars, writing: "Fiona Richmond, once Britain's number one sex symbol, plays a woman called Fiona in this bizarre sex comedy. Wrapped around the flimsiest of plots (a woman arrives at a friend's villa to find someone taking away the furniture) is a catalogue of sexual adventures, which must have included every fumbling cliché writer/director James Kenelm Clarke had ever come across."[4]
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