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Five comic sketches satirizing Italian sexual mores. One follows a bodyguard's over-attentiveness; another involves a woman's ill-fated agreement to a stranger's indecent proposalFive comic sketches satirizing Italian sexual mores. One follows a bodyguard's over-attentiveness; another involves a woman's ill-fated agreement to a stranger's indecent proposalFive comic sketches satirizing Italian sexual mores. One follows a bodyguard's over-attentiveness; another involves a woman's ill-fated agreement to a stranger's indecent proposal
Christian Aligny
- Dracula (segment "La cavallona")
- (as Christian Alegny)
Nello Pazzafini
- L'affita-auto (segment "L'attimo fuggente")
- (as Giovanni Pazzafini)
Renzo Rinaldi
- Emilia's friend (segment "La cavallona")
- (as Enzo Rinaldi)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen this film was released to theaters in the US in 1976, it had an X rating. It must have been reevaluated over the years.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Spogliamoci così, senza pudor... (1976)
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It's a little hard to judge this film given the painfully unfunny dubbing of the English-language version. The people that dubbed these things often didn't seem to take their jobs too seriously and this is especially true of these Italian comedies where they apparently felt they had to "add" to the humor by giving their characters stupid voices. Unfortunately, giving goofy voices to gorgeous foreign actresses like Barbara Bouchet and Edwige Fenech doesn't make the movie any funnier, just a lot less sexy. (Strangely, the one American here, Sydney Rome, doesn't seem to have been dubbed, but it's kind of hard to tell as she talks in a stupid and annoying voice naturally).
Conceptually and visually the humor is a bit stronger. The Tomas Milan character's coke-bottle glasses and hat with a long feather that becomes "erect" when he gets excited are not nearly as funny as the filmmakers seem to think, but the famously bug-eyed comedian Marty Feldman does some fine physical humor in "The Bodyguard" sketch about a bodyguard who takes his job VERY seriously, not leaving the side of his female charge even when she is in the bath or making love.
The movie does seem to heap a lot of humiliation on the most beautiful women in the cast (typical for Italian sex comedies I guess). Barbara Bouchet is tricked into having sex with a randy business partner of her husband in the first sketch (which is pretty clever, at least) and Edwige Fenech plays a society woman who accidentally has sex with the wrong partner, who turns out to be the most overweight and grotesque of the grotesque Italian men on the street corner that leer at her everyday as she walks by in tight skirts. If they absolutely had to humiliate the female cast members, they should have gone with the irritating Sydney Rome rather than class acts like Bouchet and Fenech, but Rome gets off pretty easy playing a sexy woman with a very vicious dog in the final sketch. OK movie, but not great
Conceptually and visually the humor is a bit stronger. The Tomas Milan character's coke-bottle glasses and hat with a long feather that becomes "erect" when he gets excited are not nearly as funny as the filmmakers seem to think, but the famously bug-eyed comedian Marty Feldman does some fine physical humor in "The Bodyguard" sketch about a bodyguard who takes his job VERY seriously, not leaving the side of his female charge even when she is in the bath or making love.
The movie does seem to heap a lot of humiliation on the most beautiful women in the cast (typical for Italian sex comedies I guess). Barbara Bouchet is tricked into having sex with a randy business partner of her husband in the first sketch (which is pretty clever, at least) and Edwige Fenech plays a society woman who accidentally has sex with the wrong partner, who turns out to be the most overweight and grotesque of the grotesque Italian men on the street corner that leer at her everyday as she walks by in tight skirts. If they absolutely had to humiliate the female cast members, they should have gone with the irritating Sydney Rome rather than class acts like Bouchet and Fenech, but Rome gets off pretty easy playing a sexy woman with a very vicious dog in the final sketch. OK movie, but not great
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- La Cavallona
- Filming locations
- Rome, Lazio, Italy(episode "L'Attimo fuggente")
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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