Underplayed Gems

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970)

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? poster
Directed by
Allen Funt
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This hidden camera film records people's genuine reactions when they suddenly encounter nudity or sexual situations. The director talks to subjects about their feelings on sexuality while capturing their spontaneous responses.

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What happens

What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? is a 1970 American hidden-camera style reality film directed by Candid Camera creator Allen Funt. In the film, Funt secretly records people's reactions to unexpected encounters with nudity or sexuality in unusual situations. The film does contain some titillating material and both male and female full frontal nudity, but much of it involves Funt talking to people about sexuality and sexual topics. Whereas Funt's other productions had to fall within Federal Communications Commission guidelines prohibiting nudity and sexual content on the airwaves, this film was outside the FCC's jurisdiction and Funt was free to incorporate them into the film. In the U.S., the film was originally rated X by the Motion Picture Association of America; an edited version was rated R in 1982. When submitted to the British Board of Film Classification in 1970, the film was originally rejected, then rated X; a 1988 video release was rated 18. The film was released on VHS in the 1980s, with a DVD released in 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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