Percy's Progress

To call Percy’s Progress a cult sex comedy is an insult to anyone with as much as a fraction of intelligence. Made in 1974 and boasting an unbelievable array of guest stars, all of who utterly wasted on this lamentable and sexist nonsense, this flick has to be seen in order NOT to be believed!

The plot, if that is what it can be called, is a continuation from the mega 1971 hit Percy, another sex comedy about the world’s first penis transplant. In this sequel, Leigh Lawson (lucky fella) is getting into Hywel Bennett’s pants as the title character. Or should I say poor fella, for Lawson surely must have realised there and then that no OSCAR nomination would be in the offing!
Our Percy is a man with a truly unbelievable libido, he just cannot help himself from bonking all over the gaff. For some reason, which is irrelevant (like the entire film), he finds himself in court charged with a minor misdemeanour. After this experience he decides to take a break from bonking and goes on a solo cruise on a yacht in order to avoid the authorities. During his sabbatical at sea, an unfortunate accident occurs when a noxious chemical is released into the world’s water supply, leaving the male of the species impotent. That is to say all except one: no prizes for guessing who it is. Yes, it’s our reluctant hero has been quaffing nothing else but champagne.

When Percy decides it is time for him to return to normality, he drops in at a brothel on an exotic island. In view of the situation, it is soon noticed that Percy is able to do what no other man can. What d’ya know, there just happens to be a representative of the almighty British press at this disreputable establishment and in no time our man is even more in demand, especially when the British Government gets involved. Their mission is to re-populate the planet with the help of Percy’s ‘plonker’ via the help of an international pageant to find a ‘Miss Conception’ from each country… and there are quite a lot of countries. Poor Percy desperately tries to keep his end up, but the poor chap ends up virtually shagged out…

The jokes are abysmal, the women are all nymphomaniacs, the men are all sex-crazed idiots, and the general plot is below the bottom of the barrel: ‘Miss Bristol City’ oh for Christ sakes, nevertheless a nice little cameo for Hammer glam babe Madeleine Smith who gets to prove that she isn’t as dumb as she appears to be (the reference is to the part she is playing).
Harry H. Corbett (Steptoe & Son) gives us a positively ridiculous caricature of a Northern prime minister – is this grotesque joke supposed to be Harold Wilson? As for Vincent Price playing Greek shipping magnate Stavos Mammonian – the name Mammo… should serve us a clue that Price was prepared to make an absolute tit of himself. Barry Humphries aka Dame Edna can be seen in a double role, yes, one is in drag! Drag, of yes! That’s yet another word to describe this movie!

SPECIAL FEATURES of this Blu-ray release:
* Original theatrical trailers
* Image Gallery
* Promotional material PDF