Some Like It Cool is a 1961 British naturist film directed by Michael Winner and starring Julie Wilson and Marc Roland.[2]
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Directed by | Michael Winner |
Written by | Michael Winner |
Produced by | Adrienne Fancey |
Starring | Julie Wilson Marc Roland |
Music by | Jackie Brown Cy Payne |
Distributed by | S F Films |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £9,000[1] |
Plot
editJill likes to sunbathe in the nude and persuades her fiancé Roger to visit a nudist camp on their honeymoon.
Production
editIt was partly filmed at the Marquess of Bath's estate at Longleat.[citation needed]
Cast
edit- Julie Wilson as Jill
- Marc Roland as Roger
- Wendy Smith as Joy
- Brian Jackson as Mike Hall
- Thalia Vickers as Jill Clark
- Douglas Muir as Colonel Willoughby-Muir
- Vicki Smith as partygoer
Box office
editMichael Winner liked to boast that the film's budget was recouped in two weeks.[3]
Critical reception
editThe Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This painfully amateurish nudist film carries the usual promotional arguments, with happy, healthy naturists, crabbed opponents, and the sort of nudist goings-on which wouldn't bring a blush to a church outing."[4]
Kine Weekly wrote: "Titillating, yet innocuous British gimick offering. ... The production visits several established nudist camps and its artless tale of victory over prejudice blithely bounces from one amply uphostered posterior to another until it arrives at its conventional happy ending. Thalia Vickers and Mark Rolland act adequately as Jill and Roger, Douglas Muir "hams" effectively as Colonel Willoughby-Muir, and Julie Wilson, the well-known naturist, appears. The rest strip reasonably well. A clean romp in the "altogether", it's currently turned the Cinephone, Oxford Street, into the commercial travellers' Mecca."[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 40-41
- ^ "Some Like It Cool". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ Doing Rude things: The History of the British Sex Film. Wolfbait Books. 2017. p. 36. ISBN 9781999744151.
- ^ "Some Like It Cool". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 28 (324): 100. 1 January 1961 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Some Like It Cool". Kine Weekly. 528 (2798): 28. 18 May 1961 – via ProQuest.
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