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Alan Selwyn

1926 – 2002 · Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK · Active 1965–1995
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Keep It Up, Jack!

Keep It Up, Jack!

1974 ★ 3.3
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Jack is an unemployed Englishman who gets involved in a crooked business deal which results in him being put in charge of a bordello. Now Jack has to decide whther to be a serious businessman or just enjoy the services of his employees. Screamingly unfunny farce in which a tenth-rate seaside quick-change artist inherits a brothel, and finds himself for some unfathomable reason acting first the part of the recently expired madam, and then that of her clients. Hence the title gag, such as it is. If you miss it the first time round, there's a chorus of voices off and even a theme song to remind you. What with performers who enunciate like rejects from a RADA elocution course, a script that must have taken all of a weekend to elaborate, a handful of arbitrary flesh shots, and a relentlessly one-note sense of humour (off-key, of course), it is hardly hyperbolic to see Keep It Up, Jack! as defining a whole new low in British comedy.

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Filmography

14 credits
1970s 1 credit
1976
Secrets of a Superstud as Bernie Selby
Movie ★ 3.6
1960s 5 credits
1968
Inadmissible Evidence as Plain Clothes Detective
Movie ★ 7.0
1968
TV
1967
TV ★ 9.0
1965
Movie ★ 5.6
1965
Up the Junction as In the pub
Movie ★ 7.1
Crew Credits
1990s 2 credits
1995
The Casting Couch Associate Producer
Movie ★ 8.3
1995
Movie ★ 8.3
1970s 6 credits
1978
Forbidden Erotica Production Controller
Movie ★ 4.8
1978
Movie ★ 9.0
1976
Movie ★ 3.6
1974
Keep It Up, Jack! Associate Producer
Movie ★ 3.8
1974
Movie ★ 3.8
1973
Movie ★ 3.4