'How to Undress in Public without undue embarrassment' (1965) – Compton Bennett.
It might be
somewhat disingenuous to label this barmy titbit of mid-60s British
B-Movie burlesque a 'nudie-cutie', but with its plentiful burlesque
buffoonery, and sequential slapstick n' tickle, this joyfully
absurdist, mildly prurient Jon Pertwee-starring comedy of bawdy manly
mishaps, verbal claptrap, and ever increasing idiocy, while
tremendously silly is, quite frankly, all the more entertaining for
it! The more B-Movie tolerant viewer can readily expect to experience
a zestfully performed, though not exactly stylishly mounted series of
modestly titillating immodesty, and these sporadically salacious skits
about a nation of stiff upper lips hypocritically ogling a giddy
gaggle of glamorous girls thrupenny bits is not without momentary
edification! Not on par with Joseph Sarno or Doris Wishman, this
manifestly British, unashamedly lowbrow, hysterically high camp, immodestly silly
comedy might have, perhaps, been all but forgotten were it not for
the majestically muscular mugging of enigmatic, rubber-faced genius
Jon Pertwee, and the charmingly mellifluous narration of the altogether fabulous
Fenella Fielding is the creamy filling in this only occasionally
delectable slice of cinematic cheesecake! This is naughty, but ever so nice!!!
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