Then Murdoch makes off with the money and the three have to produce four different versions of the movie to keep everybody happy – a gay Western, a hardcore porno, a Kung Fu-style musical, and a wholesome family production.

In Eskimo Nell Heyward is parodied as "Big Dick", a crass, foul-mouthed American producer from "A.W.P Films", and the backer of the hardcore porno version.

Although Millington appears only fleetingly (with her audition sped up for comic effect), stills from her scene were used to publicize the film in magazines including Titbits[3] and Cinema X.

[2] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: On the face of it, just another cheap, fall-on-your-farce sexploitation comedy, stamped with the familiar British hallmarks of vulgarity, unsubtlety and mistimed slapstick.

What distinguishes Eskimo Nell from others of its kind, however, is the ungentlemanly relish with which the entire cast and production crew attack the film's central targets – namely, the very system which sponsors cheap sexploitation comedies, and the philistines who beget them.

Michael Armstrong's hit-and-miss script has, at its best, an equally authentic, fly-on-the-wall quality, and manages to steer clear of the more obvious plot clichés ... Inevitably, the in-jokes are over-indulged (forgivably so in the case of Beth Porter's remarkable imitation of Judy Holliday), but the film's infectious air of gleeful vengeance and genuine satirical bite give it, against all the odds, a rare claim as a British comedy of the Seventies that is both funny and relevant.