Overview

Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.

Genres

Cast

Georgina Cates

Emily

Peter Ustinov

Horace Wiggins

Prunella Scales

Aunt Agnes

Samuel West

Edward

Sean Pertwee

George

Robert Portal

Cedric

Frank Finlay

Hudson Junior

Geoffrey Palmer

His Butler's Voice

Brian Glover

Eric

Mac McDonald

American Husband

Kate Harper

American Wife

Tigmanshu Dhulia

Stall Holder