Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Cody
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
lastliberal
So, it's cheesy sexploitation from the 70s, but it is really funny. It's like watching Benny Hill with nudity. The nudity is all part of the comedy.Gabrielle Drake manages to lose her clothes in a barn with the employer's son after they break down in the country. They never do make it home.Astrid Frank is with an older couple. She has no qualms about parading around naked. Even when she is dressed, knickers are optional. She manages to get picked up by a sheik on her first night.Me Me Lai of cannibal fame is with a very wealthy family. The son is a pianist - and a virgin! He gets lucky before everyone else.Nancie Wait is in the hands of a wild daughter her first night. She ends up rocking away her virginity with a rocker.Lots of laughs.
jaibo
The "saucy" misadventures of four au pairs who arrive in London on the same day in the early 1970s. There's a Swedish girl, a Danish, a German and a Chinese. The story contrives to get the clothes off all of them, involve them in some Carry On-type humour and couple them with various misfits from the British film and TV culture of the time, including Man About the House star Richard O'Sullivan, future Coronation Street rogue Johnny Briggs and horror film stalwart Ferdy Mayne (playing a sheik). There's a pretty risqué amount of female nudity on display, for those who like that kind of thing (but obviously nothing hardcore).Most of the film is pretty thin and inconsequential; the girls are stereotypes, and German Anita especially suffers from some kind of infantalising disorder - she's a moron obsessed with colour TV who acts like a kind of uninhibited child & dresses to deliberately show her private parts; in another more serious film, she would be a psychiatric case. The most interesting section of the film involves the Swedish girl being taken to a club in London where some dodgy types are still trying to swing, being seduced by a middle-aged rocker, losing her virginity and realising that the scene is not for her. These sequences have some energy in them and point to a more intriguing film than we've ended up with, in which promiscuity and the dregs of the music business and upper classes live soulless and seedy lives (there's a fine turn by John Standing as an impotent public school roué). The strangest of the stories has the Chinese girl (future cannibal film veteran Me Me Lay) getting off with her childish piano prodigy employer, falling mutually in love with and then leaving in the middle of the night for no good reason at all, except some orientalist notion that "Chinese birds are inscrutable, ain't they?!" The film is pretty demeaning to its women characters and there's a smattering of homophobia in the dialogue and one of the characterisations. The end is striking, as Mayne's sheik for no earthly reason (except they have to end the film somehow) whisks all of the girls away to his Arab kingdom for what looks to all the world like a future in the white slave trade, which they are all delighted about.Stuff and nonsense for the most part then, but directed with a fair amount of skill by veteran Val Guest, which puts it as a piece of film-making a notch above most of the 70s Brit sexploitation flicks.
lazarillo
I saw this movie mainly because I wanted to see cult cannibal cutie Me Me Lai in one of her few non-cannibal roles. The movie is actually different vignettes about four different girls who come to England from various countries. The only thing they have in common is that they're all working as au pairs (and they're all incredibly stupid). The Swedish girl drives her employers crazy by walking around naked before she joins a harem (for the color TV). The Danish girl never even makes it to her employer's house but instead shacks with their chauffeur. These two episodes are high British silliness that would make Benny Hill blush, but the other two episodes are surprisingly downbeat. The German girl goes out with the family daughter and loses her virginity to a REALLY bad rock star (imagine a Brit Jim Morrison minus the looks, the charisma,and any shred of talent). Me Me meanwhile plays a Chinese girl (bet you didn't see that coming) who unaccountably falls in love with and beds her employer's lonely misfit son. (I am pleased to report, however, that at no time does she eat or get eaten by anybody). This movie isn't that bad, but it's not really that funny either. The main purpose seems to be to get the four leads (and a couple other girls) naked as often as possible. Not that I'm complaining though.
richard-perl-1
What a fun filled, sexy movie! They certainly don't make them like this anymore. 4 sexy au pairs arrive in London and have all sorts of sexual misadventures. The tone is oddly innocent, as the considerable nudity evolves out of stock farcical situations, rather than any overt sexual desire on the part of the characters. It is only when the actresses accidentally lose their clothes that the male characters become rampant. Richard O' Sullivan literally gets 'Randi'(sic). The film certainly betrays the origins of the softcore feature as lying in the nudie cuties and naturism films of the old school. My special interest in 'Au Pair Girls' is that I am a huge fan of Gabrielle Drake. If any actress has ever looked better naked (she's slim but wonderfully curvy), or clothed, come to that (I've loved her since the original run of UFO - who else could carry off a purple wig!), I'll eat my hat.