Friday, April 23, 2010

The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)

Directed by Russ Meyer
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Arrow Films)

Russ Meyer's influential "nudie cutie" follows a middle-aged man in a panama hat who leers at large breasts. He is modeled after the French M. Hulot character, a likable goof who is out of step with the modern world. He rides around on his red Schwinn bicycle, the same one Pee Wee Herman had, delivering radioactive isotopes to doctors. He goes to one of them to have a tooth pulled, and the drug causes him to see hypnotic swirls and naked ladies. When he comes out of his trance they are clothed again. This is repeated over and over. There is no dialogue or sound, only music and heavily echoed narration with sexual double entendre.

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