Not Now, Comrade

Not Now, Comrade is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Ray Cooney and Harold Snoad and starring Leslie Phillips, Windsor Davies, Don Estelle and Ian Lavender.

But Rudi's planned escape in the boot of a Triumph backfires when he climbs into the wrong car, and he ends up in the country home of unsuspecting naval Commander Rimmington.

Having provided this obligatory glimpse of a semi-nude woman, Not Now, Comrade settles into the familiar round of harmless double entendres buried in the ramifications of a mistaken-identity plot played by the familiar troupers of British farce – Roy Kinnear, the gardener perpetually on the point of repressed sexual combustion; Leslie Phillips, still the self-regarding gay blade, here complete with naval beard and yellow Bentley; June Whitfield, Nancy's homely Mum; Windsor Davies, the doubting hob-nailed Constable, and Don Estelle, arbitrarily brought on in the last reel to partner him in yet another re-run of their Indian Army routine.

Master of ceremonies Ray Cooney delivers the film's most embarrassing lines (the drunken Laver indulges in cloying baby-talk) and co-directs the mirthless proceedings at great speed but in a style derived from the dated traditions of the Whitehall Theatre.

[12] The Radio Times called it a "horrid comedy of errors," adding "for the sake of a hard-working cast, let's draw a discreet Iron Curtain over the whole charade.