Friday, July 6, 2007

Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962)


Absolutely fascinating early-1960s nudie flick. Seems somebody took black-and-white footage from a tame Italian drama and mixed it with color framing sequences of a hapless bellboy who keeps encountering semi-naked women. It's all pretty wacky stuff. I like the older nudie films because they still have that "forbidden" feel to them...not like today's harder R and X-rated films that are just plain dirty. Know what I mean? The young genius that put this all together was a young Francis Ford Coppola, whom you might recognize from some movies he directed in the 1970s. This was also released to theaters as The Playgirls And The Bellboy, as if that would fool anybody.

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