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Mr. Peek-a-Boo's Playmates
USA 1962
produced by Ronald V. Ashcroft, Lorraine Ashcroft for Doe-Rae Pictures
directed by Ronald V.Ashcroft
starring Stanton Pritchard, Denise Daniels, Cindy Tyler, George Rathburn, Kitty Randall, Jean Cartwright, Bob Curtis, Ewing Brown, Janice Carter, Jane Anna, Al Bush, Kenne Duncan, Lillian Lewis, Rhea Walker, Susie, Gene Kauer, Kay Kramer, Loraine LaLance, Dean McMahon, Bob Dennis
written by Ronald V. Ashcroft, Lorraine Ashcroft, music by Gene Kauer
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Hunger has driven him half out of his mind, but when a bum goes through
some trashcans, the best thing he can come up with are some sunglasses.
When he puts them on though, he realizes they enable him to see women
naked. So off he goes to the next pizza parlor to lend them out to the
owner in exchange for food. He later gets a shave at the local barbershop
pretty much the same way, even if ogling women in the nude distracts the
barber to such an extent he almost cuts our bum's throat. At a men's wear
store, he gets the storeowner to give him a suit and tie for a little time
with his X-ray glasses. Getting a motel room works pretty much the same
way, especially since the motel has a hot maid and a horny manager. The
next day, the bum meets an old friend of his, Susie, who actually tells
him she can hook him up with a job - as brush salesman. Susie also
persuades our bum (or rather former bum) to buy a car, but since he hasn't
earned any money yet, he is up to his old tricks paying for the car. Soon
thouth our bum-turned-brush salesman realizes it's much harder to sell
brushes to housewives than to persuade men to look at naked women - so he
figures why not sell the brushes to men and give them a look through his
glasses as an incentive ... works like a charm, naturally. Then though,
the bum-turned-salesman meets a friend of his, another bum, and he tells
him the secret of his success, his glasses ... and he figures since the
glasses have already given him everything he could have wanted, why not
pass the glasses along to his friend? Your typical early-1960's
nudie cutie, this one might have an alibi-plot, but it actually shows
little pretence to be little more than an excuse to show women in the nude
(topless nudity only, these were the early 1960's). The whole thing is so
unpretentious even that it uses no online sound, just offline narration
and a musical score - which was pretty standard with early nudies,
theough. Still, there is a little humour in the film as well, but by far
the funniest is seeing these women try to act naturally while posing in
the nude and carefully avoiding to go full frontal - awkward to say the
least. Still, nothing to really differentiate this film from other nudie
cuties of the era. One interesting aspect though: The beginning of this
movie (and in parts also its whole premise) is not at all unlike that of
John Carpenter's much later underrated masterpiece They
Live ...
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