DramaComedy

Deep End

- If you can't have the real thing— you do all kinds of unreal things.

London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

Release Date : 1970-09-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Maran FilmKettledrum-Lownes Productions

Production Country : United KingdomGermany

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Susan

Original Name : Jane Asher

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mike

Original Name : John Moulder-Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gym Teacher

Original Name : Karl Michael Vogler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chris

Original Name : Christopher Sandford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bathhouse Female Client #1

Original Name : Diana Dors

Gender : Female

Character Name : Beata

Original Name : Louise Martini

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bathhouse Cashier

Original Name : Erica Beer

Gender : Female

Character Name : Kathy

Original Name : Anita Lochner

Gender : Female

Character Name : Angie

Original Name : Anne-Marie Kuster

Gender : Female

Character Name : Red Hat Girl

Original Name : Cheryl Hall

Gender : Female

Character Name : White Coat Girl

Original Name : Christine Paul-Podlasky

Gender : Female

Character Name : Bathhouse Boiler Room Manager

Original Name : Dieter Eppler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bathhouse Manager

Original Name : Karl Ludwig Lindt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cinema Manager

Original Name : Eduard Linkers

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Police Officer

Original Name : Will Danin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cap Boy

Original Name : Gerald Rowland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Street Food Cart Manager

Original Name : Burt Kwouk

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mike's Father (uncredited)

Original Name : Uli Steigberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mike's Mother (uncredited)

Original Name : Erika Wackernagel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bathhouse Female Client #2 (uncredited)

Original Name : Ursula Mellin

Gender : Female

Character Name : Old Police Officer (uncredited)

Original Name : Peter Martin Urtel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Erotic Show Announcer (uncredited)

Original Name : Jon Laurimore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Tube Passenger With Newspaper (uncredited)

Original Name : Jerzy Skolimowski

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sex Film Actress (uncredited)

Original Name : Ursula Holstein

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sex Film Actress (uncredited)

Original Name : Flavia Keyt

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-05-25

Takes me back to the days when folks had to go to a bathhouse - we'd get half an hour and I'd share with my sister. Carbolic soap! Anyway, don't remember having attendants quite as easy on the eye as "Susan" (Jane Asher) and "Mike" (John Moulder-Brown). Most of the film is taken from the perspective of the latter, constantly horny, young lad who has the serious hots for his colleague. He's young and innocent and so gets his fair share of attention (and tips) from the clientele too - especially Diana Dors! "Susan" lives her life to the full, and that doesn't suit the increasingly possessive young "Mike". He starts to follow her and soon realises that she has a pretty drippy boyfriend "Mike" (Christopher Sandford) and is having a fling with his teacher (Karl Michael Vogler). Somehow he manages to get hold of a full-sized cardboard cut out of his dream girl as the latter half hour of the film descends a little too much into hormone-driven farce for me. It was rated X for the nudity, of which there is a little towards the end, but for the most part the sexual content is confined to the young man's head and JMB is quite good at imbuing his character with a degree of sexual frustration that I suspect we can all relate to. Asher, likewise, is quite effective as his manipulatrix and for an hour or so their teasing cat and mouse antics (she being the cat) are quite fun. Thereafter, though, I sort of lost interest and found it dragging. It's certainly worth a watch, but it's lost most of its oomph I'm afraid.