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5 unconnected stories:
- A man (Enrico Montesano) persuades a woman (Barbara Bouchet) to have
sex with him for 20 million Lira. Reluctantly she agrees, ab ove all
because he claims he will leave for Australia the very next day and never
see her again. A week later the man's back with another 20 million, and
before long he has persuaded her to do it again. Days later the
woman is at the airport to pcik up her hubby (Franco Diogene) when she
meets the man once more, with another 20 million. He claims he will leave
the country for good this time and before long he has persuaded her to do
it with him yet again on the toilet, in exchange for the money ...
Later when the woman actually picks up her hubby, he tells her that the
man is acftually his employee who claims he has just gotten 60 million
Lira out of Switzerland and transferred it to her account - exactly the
amount he has claimed to pay her for their three times having sex ...
- Marina (Dayle Haddon), a millionaire's daughter, is burdened with a
bodyguard (Marty Feldman) who has the habit to show up at the least proper
moments (like when she's in the bathtub and stuff), thus making her life
to a living hell. Eventually Marina finds a lover, artist Francois (Mimmo
Craig), and she doesn't mind in the least when he hits her bodyguard over
the head with a baseball bat. Even when heimmures the bodyguard in one of
his sculptures - he's from Sicily, and there they do things that way -,
she is not as worried as she should be ... but then he turns out to be the
head of a gang of kidnappers, which is when Marina starts to worry - but
her godyguard is not dead as everybody thought, he does make it out of the
sculpture in one piece but is covered in quick-drying plaster - which
turns out to be an advantage when fighting off a gang of gangsters, and at
the end of the day, her own, weird (after all,w e are talking about Marty
Feldman here) bodyguard turns out to be Marina's hero of the day.
- A Contessa (Giovanna Ralli) treats her driver (Alberto Lionello) like
a piece of shit, but then again, she every now and again treats him to a
peak at her lingerie and makes him hotter and hotter - until he can no
longer hold onto himself and tries to rape her ... only in the decisive
moment being unable to perform .... As it turns out, the two of them are
not really Contessa and driver but husband and wife, and they have some
problems in, well, the boudoir department, which forces them to more and
more bizarre roleplays - but to no avail. It is only when they get into a
big fight that he suddenly feels an erection coming on, whereupon they
immediately do it - in their car, in the middle of the road.
- A man (Tomas Milian) has increasingly bizarre sexual dreams about a
woman (Edwige Fenech), and he has the habit of always phoning her up the
next day to tell her about it - much to her annoyance at first, but after
a while, she starts to fantasize about him as well, and eventually she
persuades hm to meet her under a bridge. Under the bridge, where it's
totally dark, she picks the first man she gets her hands on and lets him
shag her like nobody's business ... only to learn the next day that it
wasn't him she shagged but a complete stranger ...
- A man (Aldo Maccione) sees a woman (Sydne Rome) trying to throw
herself off a window ledge and saves her life ... and as a thank you she
invites him to her appartment to shag her. What she doesn't mention of
course is that she has a jealous dog, who even tends to get violent, and
utlimately the man ends up falling from the very widowledge he saved her
from ...
In the 1970's in Italy (as well as pretty much around the world),
pointless, mindless sex-comedies were produced a dime a dozen, and this is
one of them. Now let me mention up front that Sex with a Smile is
by no means a great films, but among mindless sex comedies it possibly
ranks among the better ones: Each story is at least thought through and
most of them feature funny if not terribly original punchlines, and at
least veteran comedian Marty Feldman as tough-as-nails bodyguard is worth
a chuckle or two. On the debit side of course, much of the slapstick is
unbearable (as is often the case with sex-comedies from the 1970's), some
of the performances are pretty bad, and from a voyeuristic point of view,
many of the stories promise much more than they are able to keep ...
STill, if you have a soft spot for this kind of film (like I do), you
might like Sex with a Smile ....
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