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* SecretSquatter: A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest". Unknown to him, Jack the Ripper lives in secret passages lining the building.

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Dewicking A Date With Rosie Palms which is now an index.


* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so again by tying boxing gloves to his hands.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: After Jack's mother [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown catches him masturbating]] she attempts to prevent him from doing so again by tying boxing gloves to his hands.

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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over catch him masturbating to a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so again by tying boxing gloves to his hands.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: After Jack's mother [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown catches him masturbating]] she attempts to prevent him from doing so again by tying boxing gloves to his
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* FearOfThinder: Alice is afraid of thunder. Jack uses a convenient thunderstorm, and her reluctance to leave during it, as an excuse to trap her in his sex dungeon.

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* FearOfThinder: FearOfThunder: Alice is afraid of thunder. Jack uses a convenient thunderstorm, and her reluctance to leave during it, as an excuse to trap her in his sex dungeon.
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* FearOfThinder: Alice is afraid of thunder. Jack uses a convenient thunderstorm, and her reluctance to leave during it, as an excuse to trap her in his sex dungeon.
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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so gain by tying boxing gloves to his hands.

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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so gain again by tying boxing gloves to his hands.
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* CaughtWithYourPants: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so gain by tying boxing gloves to his hands.

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* CaughtWithYourPants: CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so gain by tying boxing gloves to his hands.
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* CaughtWithYourPants: Early in the film, both Jack's father and mother (separately) catching having ADateWithRosiePalms over a photograph of a naked woman. His mother attempts to prevent him from doing so gain by tying boxing gloves to his hands.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: After Jack's mother [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown catches him masturbating]] she attempts to prevent him from doing so again by tying boxing gloves to his hands.


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* AThreesomeIsHot: After [[MissKitty Madame Helena]] takes charge of Jack's sexual education, it culminates with him being in bed with four women.
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* OfCorsetsSexy: The {{Fanservice Extra}}s in [[MissKitty Madame Helena]]'s cathouse wear corsets and Victorian underthings and nothing else. Later, when Jack is attempting ravish Alice, she has to tell him how to undo her corset while pretending not to.
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* FanserviceExtra: Madame Helena's cathouse is filled with nubile young topless women wearing [[OfCorsetItsSexy corsets]] and Victorian underthings.

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* FanserviceExtra: Madame Helena's cathouse is filled with nubile young topless women wearing [[OfCorsetItsSexy [[OfCorsetsSexy corsets]] and Victorian underthings.

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* FanServiceExtra: Madame Helena's cathouse is filled with nubile young topless women wearing [[OfCorsetsItsSexy corsets]] and Victorian underthings.

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* FanServiceExtra: FanserviceExtra: Madame Helena's cathouse is filled with nubile young topless women wearing [[OfCorsetsItsSexy [[OfCorsetItsSexy corsets]] and Victorian underthings.


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* OutWithABang: Sir Cecil dies while having sex with one of the girls at Madame Helena's cathouse. The girl notes that he died with a smile on his face.
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* FanServiceExtra: Madame Helena's cathouse is filled with nubile young topless women wearing [[OfCorsetsItsSexy corsets]] and Victorian underthings.
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* HandOrObjectUnderwear: One of the naked women Jack photographs in his studio covers her nethers with a top hat.
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''A Man with a Maid'' (a.k.a. ''What the Swedish Butler Saw'', ''The Groove Room'', and ''Champagnegalopp'') is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors.

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''A Man with a Maid'' (a.k.a. ''What the Swedish Butler Saw'', ''The Groove Room'', and ''Champagnegalopp'') is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors.
Creator/DianaDors.
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* UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper: A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest". Unknown to him, Jack the Ripper lives in secret passages lining the building.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. The protagonist is Jack Armstrong, and the villain (sort of) is UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.


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* TheVoiceless: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper never says a word, although there is no indication that he is mute.
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* LovePotion: Jack purchase a powerful aphrodisiac that he mixes into elderberry wine in an attempt to seduce Alice. It certainly works on Samson and Fanny when they drink it.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: When Jack is chasing Alice around The Snuggery in an attempt to ravish her, she grabs a bottle of champagne and flings it at his head.
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* CaughtInASnare: After chasing Alice around The Snuggery, Jack catches her in a a net he laid especially for this purpose. After tying her up, he then gets caught in the net himself when the traps start malfunctioning.
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* MissKitty: Madame Helena is the wheelchair-bound madame of a high-class cathouse who takes young Jack's education firmly in hand.



* SpurnedIntoSuicide: After Alice turns down Jack's marriage proposal in order to marry Sir Cecil, Jack attempts to commit suicide and take a photograph of himself in the act: planning to have it delivered to her on her wedding day. It turns into a BungledSuicide when the beam he ties the noose to gives way.

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* SpurnedIntoSuicide: After Alice turns down Jack's marriage proposal in order to marry Sir Cecil, Jack attempts to commit suicide and take a photograph of himself in the act: planning to have it delivered to her on her wedding day. It turns into a BungledSuicide when the beam he ties the noose to gives way.way.
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* OldTimeyAnkleTaboo: Jack describes Alice's family thusly:
-->'''Jack Armstrong:''' ''[narrating]'' Her father, Reverend Faversham, and her mother were absolute pillars of Victorian morality. They were the kind of people who had little skirts made for the piano's legs to ensure the modesty of the home.
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* NobodyHereButAsStatues: When the police search his house, Jack disguises the naked Alice as Greek statue.

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* NobodyHereButAsStatues: NobodyHereButUsStatues: When the police search his house, Jack disguises the naked Alice as Greek statue.

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* PortraitPaintingPeephole: The portrait of Queen Victoria in the Snuggery allows spying on those within.

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* NobodyHereButAsStatues: When the police search his house, Jack disguises the naked Alice as Greek statue.
* PortraitPaintingPeephole: The portrait of Queen Victoria in the Snuggery allows spying Usefulnotes/JackTheRipper, who lives in the wall of the house, to spy on those within.
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* SpurnedIntoSuicide: After Alice turns down Jack's marriage proposal in order to marry Sir Cecil, Jack attempts to commit suicide and take a photograph of himself in the act: planning to have it delivered to her on her wedding day. It turns into a BungledSuicided when the beam he ties the noose to gives way.

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* SpurnedIntoSuicide: After Alice turns down Jack's marriage proposal in order to marry Sir Cecil, Jack attempts to commit suicide and take a photograph of himself in the act: planning to have it delivered to her on her wedding day. It turns into a BungledSuicided BungledSuicide when the beam he ties the noose to gives way.
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* BungledSuicide: SpurnedIntoSuicide, Jack attempts to hang himself and take a photograph of it at the same time: to be delivered to Alice on her wedding day. It fails when the beam he attaches the rope to gives way.



* PortraitPaintingPeephole: The portrait of Queen Victoria in the Snuggery allows spying on those within.

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* PortraitPaintingPeephole: The portrait of Queen Victoria in the Snuggery allows spying on those within.within.
* SpitTake: Jack is taking tea with Alice when he sees Samson and Fanny romping naked behind her back, resulting in him spraying a mouthful of tea over Alice.
* SpurnedIntoSuicide: After Alice turns down Jack's marriage proposal in order to marry Sir Cecil, Jack attempts to commit suicide and take a photograph of himself in the act: planning to have it delivered to her on her wedding day. It turns into a BungledSuicided when the beam he ties the noose to gives way.
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''A Man with a Maid'' (a.k.a. ''What the Swedish Butler Saw'', ''The Groove Room'', and ''Champagnegalopp'') is a 1975 Swedish-American erotic sex comedy film directed by Vernon P. Becker and starring Ole Søltoft, Sue Longhurst, Malou Cartwright and Diana Dors.

A Victorian aristocrat buys a former madhouse and converts it into a "love nest". Unknown to him, Jack the Ripper lives in secret passages lining the building.
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!!Tropes the Swedish Butler Saw:

* HypnoPendulum: Jack swings a crystal in front of Alice and Marion in an attempt to hypnotize them. It fails, but does put Samson into a trance.
* PortraitPaintingPeephole: The portrait of Queen Victoria in the Snuggery allows spying on those within.

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