Advantages: Strong cast, great characters, very funny Disadvantages: The fact it's in black and white may put some people off
...- particularly if you are the victim of it. What is one to do if a sleazy journalist is threatening to reveal your well hidden past unless you can get your hands on £10,000 pronto? This is the basic scenario of "The Naked Truth", a classic British comedy film made in 1957 and directed by Mario Zampi. ==Plot== Nigel Dennis has a dummy magazine called "The Naked Truth", which is inspired by American scandal rags of the period such as "Confidential". ... ...He has many victims but the film focuses on just four - model Melissa Right, TV personality "Wee" Sonny MacGregor, peer of the realm and insurance executive Lord Henry Mayley and best-selling author Flora Ransom. Only MacGregor's secret is clearly shown - on TV his faux Scotsman act appeals mainly to the older generation, however in reality he is a slum landlord to many of them. The other secrets are merely hinted at and it is left to the audience ...
rosebud2001 09.09.2009
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Advantages: A good ensemble piece with many well known character actors Disadvantages: Loses the plot slightly towards the end
The late 1940's until the early 60's was a golden era for British comedy. You know the sort I'm talking about,. the ones that now often get shown on Sunday afternoons on (usually) the commercial channels and seem to feature a cast of well known British character actors of that period. I'm primarily thinking here not just of the superior Ealing comedies and the ones by the Bouting brothers but also the ones that are more obscure. The Naked Truth falls ... ...magazine (the 'Naked Truth' of the title) editor, earning loadsamoney by blackmailing hundreds of prominent and/or well placed people, of which Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Shirley Eaton and Peggy Mount are but four. He has damaging information on all four that for Sellers, Mounts and Thomas's characters could end their careers, them being well-known public figures. In Eaton's character's case, it could kill her upcoming marriage to a Texan oil millionaire.
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is a best-selling novelist Shirley Eaton is a gorgeous model.They are all being blackmailed by the sleazy editor of a scandal rag (Dennis Price), who'd rather take...
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