On the Game is a 1974 British comedy drama film directed by Stanley Long and starring Charles Gray.

[3] [4] The film is a dramatised comedy documentary about prostitution through the ages.

23 minutes of hardcore footage, shot for the film was discovered in 2024. https://under-the-counter.com/2024/12/09/lost-continental-footage-found/ Mercer said, "Had I lived in 16th century Italy, or in the 1860's in France I probably would have been a courtesan ...

I work in a very tough business.”[5] Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Tawdry in the extreme, On the Game is a shoe-string production that almost becomes a high camp exercise in minimal film-making: a garden somewhere in Greater London – in early spring, with a small flight of goosepimpled dolly-birds – stands in for the temple meads of Babylon, and elsewhere a quarry and various London town houses do service for various periods, The film bids, from time to time, to be taken seriously for its historical stance, but such efforts are briskly guyed by its fun-poking notion of bawdy humour.

"[6] The East Kent Times and Mail called it "an informative and entertaining film.