The rest of the cast - Bill Fraser, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Trudi Van Doorn - are all great too in their supporting roles. The expressions on his face as he reacts to the various things happening around him are simply hilarious. Derren Nesbitt is brilliant as the bloke who the furrier tries to dupe into buying the mink coat. Joan Sims and Barbara Windsor bring their CARRY ON personas along and it blends perfectly with the humour of the film. She is also shown topless several times and fully nude in the uncut version. She really fits into the world of this CARRY ON-style humour as though she had been in it throughout her career.
Julie Ege is fantastic as Janie, the girlfriend of the furrier. He livens up the film immensely and it's just as well that he gets such a great deal of screen time with Phillips because they make a great double act. Cooney is brilliant as Crouch and steals every scene he's in with such glee. In many reviews of the film I've read, people have said that Ray Cooney was wrong to take on the role of Crouch himself. His caddish screen persona is perfectly suited to the role and I really couldn't imagine anyone else being able to play the part so well, not even the late, great Sid James.
He seems to have a ball of a time as the fast-paced film goes on. Leslie Phillips is perhaps at his best in this film. One event after another leads to things spiraling out of the furrier's control, with his assistant noting "what a tangled web we weave" (an often used line in Cooney's farces) about halfway through the film. So he tries to sell the coat at a huge discount, hoping the husband will fall for it. The plot is simple as most farces start from a basic idea - a furrier wants to buy his girlfriend an expensive mink coat but is worried about her husband finding out. Unlike the two of the remaining four films to be based on a stage production, this one doesn't go to great lengths to hide its stage origins. NOT NOW DARLING is probably the best of the five films. These were DOCTOR IN TROUBLE, DON'T JUST LIE THERE, SAY SOMETHING, NOT NOW, COMRADE, Spanish FLY and this film. Leslie Phillips made a number of bedroom farces in the early to mid-1970s.
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