Every Home Should Have One is a 1970 British comedy film directed by Jim Clark and starring Marty Feldman. It was released in the United States in theatres and on home video under the title Think Dirty.
The overall concept is in direct ridicule of the then ongoing campaign by Mary Whitehouse on gratuitous sex in advertising and other fields. Certain sections such as the parish council watching entire programmes by which they are offended by to count the offensive incidents, parodies Mary Whitehouse's infamous behaviour of the time.
Plot
An advertising man is assigned by his boss to come up with a sexy new image for Mrs McLaughlin's Frozen Porridge. While his wife runs a clean-up-TV campaign organized by the local vicar, he has an affair with the au-pair girl.
The overall concept is that adverts play out before their lives connecting to the products to hand.
The various porridge advertising campaigns get more and more extreme: the most relevant being the Goldilocks and the Three Bears campaign. This leads to a secondary campaign to search for "Miss Goldilocks".
Cast
Marty Feldman as Teddy Brown
Judy Cornwell as Liz Brown
Garry Miller as Richard Brown, their son
Shelley Berman as Nat Kaplan
Hy Hazell as Mrs. Kaplan
Julie Ege as Inga Giltenburg
Penelope Keith as Lotte von Gelbstein
Moray Watson as Chandler
Jack Watson as McLaughlin
Mark Elwes as Rokes
Harold Innocent as Jimpson
Dinsdale Landen as Reverend Geoffrey Mellish
John McKelvey as Colonel Belper
Charles Lewsen as Arthur Soames
Maggie Jones as Hetty Soames
Frances de la Tour as Maude Crape
Patrick Cargill as Wallace Trufitt, MP
Patience Collier as Mrs. Monty Levin
Annabel Leventon as Chandler's secretary
Sarah Badel as Joanna Snow
John Wells as Tolworth
Michael Bates as Magistrate
Dave Dee as Wednesday Play Star
Judy Huxtable as Frankenstein Heroine
Production
The film's titles and animated sequences were provided by Richard Williams.
Filming
The film was produced at Shepperton Studios in England.
Music
The feature's theme song, "Every Home Should Have One", was written by John Cameron, Caryl Brahms, and Ned Sherrin, arranged by Alan Tew, produced by Jackie Rand, and sung by Millicent Martin. The song was released as a single to promote the film.
Reception
The film was one of the most popular movies in 1970 at the British box office.
However according to Sidney Gilliat who was on the board at British Lion, the film lost money