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Naked as Nature Intended
Cornish Holiday / As Nature Intended Featuring the Five Nature Girls
UK 1961
produced by George Harrison Marks, Michael Klinger, Tony Tenser, John Brason (executive) for Compass Films, Compton-Cameo Films, Markten Film Productions
directed by George Harrison Marks
starring Bridget Leonard, Angela Jones, Petrina Forsyth, Jackie Salt, Pamela Green, Stuart Samuels, narration by Guy Kingsley Poynter
written by George Harrison Marks, Gerald Holgate
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Best friends office girl Petrina (Forsyth), shoe saleswoman Jacke
(Salt) and dancer Pamela (Green) decide to go on a trip through the
Cornish countryside for the weekend, and of course they had no intention
to end up in a nudist club. Gas station girls Bridget (Leonard) and Angela
(Jones) on the other hand have been nudists for years and thus have
decided to take a two-day hike to their favourite nudist club. So the trio
of friends on one hand, the two gas station girls on the other visit
various sights along the coast of Cornwall before Petrina, Jackie and
Pamela find a nice strip of beach to have a good swim - and to detect
they're next to a nudist camp. And of course, they first stumble upon
Bridget and Angela in the nude, and after initial surprise they let the
two girls convince them that there's nothing wrong with being nude in
nature, so the girls quickly take their clothes off and do ... well, what
nudists are apparently doing, like frolicking in the water, playing beach
ball and ping pong, doing the swings, gardening and the like, and after
this weekend they're all nudists for life.
The first feature film by director George Harrison Marks and
model Pamela Green, somewhat of a power team in British erotica of the
late 1950s/early 60s, first in magazines then erotic loops, this movie is
certainly an oddity among nudist camp films - basically because for two
thirds it isn't. Sure, there are glimpses of naked breasts every now and
again, and the narration really teases nudist camp scenes throughout, but
basically the first 40 or so minutes are a travelogue - or the parody of
one - with the girls visiting pretty much all the sights of
Cornwall, with the narration switching between informative and strictly
comical rather randomly, while actually taking note of the fact that one
and the same actor (Stuart Samuels) is used over and over again in
different roles. And really this clash of comedy (if you can call it that)
and the mere factual gives the film an almost surreal feel, especially
with the constant nudist camp tease. Once the girls reach the camp though,
the film falls back to the routines already familiar from American nudist
movies, with the typical nudist routines while trying to hide all primary
genitals - which is somewhat funny to watch a bit but gets tedious in the
long run. So by no means a perfect or even good film, but an unusual
experience and a fine time capsule - also because of several horribly
outdated gender clichés.
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