Not Now, Darling is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Ray Cooney and David Croft and starring Trudi Van Doorn, Leslie Phillips and Julie Ege.

It's a system which ideally suited to the filming of stage performances, a way of breaking up long sequences in confined settings; but in the case of Not Now Darling its advantages (other than economic ones) are hardly apparent.

Minimally adapted for the screen from a West End play and with the bulk of its action still set in the furrier's showroom, the film retains the stock ingredients of stage farce: hairbreadth exits and entrances, mistaken identity, characters talking at cross purposes and indulging in prolonged double entendre on such subjects as Barbara Windsor's tits ("You know, birds").

Already weighted down by this level of verbal invention, the flow of the action is further broken by the directors' repetitive habit of employing close-ups for every punchline; and the original sense of accumulating chaos, fostered in part by the monotony of a stalls-eye-view, is here entirely dissipated.

Popular 1930s husband-and-wife team Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge were reunited on screen for the first time in 12 years for this clumsy version of Ray Cooney's long-running West End farce.