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When her husband Bob (Don Roberts), American painter in France, wants
to take Yvonne (Patricia Conelle) & their daughter to America for
the first time to meet his mother, she immediately panics - & she of
course was right, since Bob's mother strongly approves of her
daughter-in-law's way of life - her being a nude modell & nudist -
& she soon talks her son into a divorce. Yvonne, shocked by this
turn of events, flees with her daughter to the next nudist colony, where
she meets her lawyer Lynn Wingate (Arianne Ulmer) for the first time, to
whom she explains her nudist lifestyle. In courtroom things soon start
to get messy, as everyone from Bob's childhood-sweetheart Laura to
private eye Becker try to discredit Yvonne - the latter even by showing
secretly filmed footage obtained at a nudist camp. Everything seems
lost now, but Lynn won't give up, having a few aces of her own up her
sleeve - them being an art critic commenting on Bob's nude-paintings,
& Bob himself, who, as it turns out, knew about his wife's
associtaion with nudists all along & employed her as a nude model
long before they got married ... In the end, Yvonne has won the case -
this meaning she gets custody of her & Bob's daughter, & she
returns to Paris with her ... where, before long, a remorseful Bob shows
up, wanting to reconcile ... In his time, Edgar G.Ulmer was
one of the very few truly independent directors inside the studio-system
- which basically meant that he had to direct many a movie that would
have been below his value just to keep working - & usually his films
- mostly cheap genre-pictures - would transcend their genre ... as is
the place here, where Ulmer took the basics of the nudist genre &
fitted them onto a courtroom-drama, inducing the sexual contents with a
dramatic plot not usually found in the back then little regarded genre. But
let me get this straight, it's interesting & well made for a nudist
movie, & done on a decent technical level, but it's far from being a
masterpiece. |