What Do You Say to a Naked Lady (1970)

the audience applauded

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Did you know that Allen Funt became friends with a singing duo named Boyce and Hart. These singers wrote and sang a song "Hey! What do you say to a naked lady?" Allen Funt loved this song so much that he took it one step further and made this movie from their song. Later he even got them an appearance on the TV show "Bewitched" where they sang for a TV audience for the first time. The song writing duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart went on to write hundreds of songs for various performers and wrote many television scores. When this movie came out in 1970 many theaters were closed down for showing "obscene material". This created a backlash so much that people started showing up at the theaters with only a raincoat on or naked with a big purse. The movie is not great for content, but is wonderful for telling us about our history in the 70's.

Originally X rated version of Allen Funt's Candid Camera TV show. This involves people running into naked women (and men) in the most ordinary situations. One involves a totally nude woman trying to get help with her car that broke down. Another has a nude woman in an office building casually waiting for the elevator. Another has a nude statue of a man that starts talking to a secretary at work.At first this was funny but it gets tiresome. It's basically different variations of the same joke done over and over again. The reactions are hilarious however, the movie has a very light-hearted tone and all the nude people (men and women) are attractive. This was cut down in 1982 to get an R rating and that's the version I saw...but it was long enough. My favorite reactions: a guy looking at a nude woman up and down while waiting for an elevator casually says to her, "Nice outfit"; a secretary while on the phone tells a nude talking male statute near her desk to be quiet! So it is fun but it's just the same thing over and over. I'd love to see the complete X version someday.

God bless Allen Funt.I grew up loving Mr Funt's gentle humor on CANDID CAMERA,a sharp contrast to the mean-spirited "humor" of today's reality shows.The movie is a documentary in the CC style where Funt explores how people feel about sexuality.From the opening images of a nude young lady confronting men in public places,where tittilation seems so naughty,the film instead shows us incredible imagery of folks confronting their prejudices and self-images.A crowning achievement.

How often does one remember only a few brief scenes from a film and find on re-viewing years later that it was only those few moments that are worth remembering? NAKED LADY, one might think, being a film of individual moments, could well be such a film. Happily, this is not the case. (Only the little kids on the lawn and the extended reprise of faces and "smile" moments at the end seemed at all tacky.) The passing years have only added to the film's value, for it turns out to be a revealing portrait of changing attitudes to sex in the late sixties, when people of all ages with open minds were receptive to new ways of thinking about sex. The film has an innocence and a hopefulness, a simple charm that we've all lost today for many reasons. It's Funt's film all the way, of course, and it's his masterpiece! His personality dominates the film; his voice constantly heard, challenging his subjects to say what they think and to think about what they say. The naked ladies in unusual places are there to sell the film, to provide entertainment value, but people are what endlessly fascinates Funt. He really likes people, and he loves to talk to them. The core scenes are all talking heads; the co-eds talking about guys on the dorm, the young people and their parents talking about sex, the woman who "prostitutes" for free because she likes it, his interview with a prospective model, even the "man in the street" comments about "how birds do it." It's no accident that the film is interracial, because Funt's belief is that you can't judge a person by their looks. Sometimes people are true to type, but just as often they're not. An IMDb viewer says that, based on his recollection, the current version differs from the original release. I wouldn't have remembered the changes he mentions, but my own recollection suggests an excision of a character in the greatest sequence in the film in which Funt, as a bus ticket clerk, feels people out on their feelings about an interracial couple. I recall clearly that there was a young, long-haired hippie type who was very outspoken against the couple, who was contrasted with the older man who says, "what's the difference, it's a big world," and prefers love to war profiteering. I did misremember that great line of the passing English bicycler at the beginning which I recalled as, "What you got there, Charlie?" when it's actually, "Charlie, how'd you get caught with that one?" But I can't see how I made up the young long-haired hippie; I'm certain he was there in the original release. The comments of the older man whose son married a Mexican girl, his difficulty in accepting the marriage so touchingly mixed with his pride in his grandchildren, again brought a lump to my throat. Moments like this must have been what Funt lived for. In his earlier days, going way back to "Candid Microphone" before TV, the emphasis was always on human interaction. (I remember, for example, a theatrical short where Funt, as a travel agent, insisted, with total courtesy and friendliness, on selling a customer a fancy vacation when they wanted something plain and simple.) The TV show had moved away from that to sight gags like cars splitting in half. This film was Funt's attempt to return to his roots. It's a very serious film by a very serious filmmaker, Funt challenging his audience to examine their own feelings and beliefs, and gently urging tolerance for the infinite variety of mankind. It's a far better, more enduring film, in fact, than some of the documentary "classics" (GREY GARDENS, for example) that were made in the same era.