My Bare Lady (film)

My Bare Lady
My Bare Lady movie poster
Directed byArthur Knight
Written byJervis MacArthur
Produced byTony Tenser (as "Phineas Lonestar Jnr")
Starring
  • Carl Conway
  • Julie Martin
Music byDe Wolfe
Release date
  • 6 December 1962 (1962-12-06)
Running time
64 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

My Bare Lady is a 1963 British exploitation film directed by Arthur Knight and starring Julie Martin and Carl Conway.[1] It is also known as Bare Lady, Bare World, It's a Bare World and My Seven Little Bares.[2] My Bare Lady is associated with a cycle of nudist films in British cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[3]

Plot

Tina is young American woman visiting Great Britain meets and falls in love with Pat, a U.S. Korean War veteran who is involved with a local nudist camp. The young woman is initially distressed at the man's clothing-free lifestyle, but later changes her mind and sheds her garments when Mrs. Darwell, the kindly housekeeper, relates a romantic story of a young couple who fell in love in Paris and later married at a British nudist colony.[4]

Cast

  • Julie Martin as Tina
  • Carl Conway as Pat
  • Nina Huntredos as Mrs. Darwell
  • Kenneth McClelland
  • Chantal Delors
  • Gilly Gerard
  • Jack Taylor
  • Bob Bryant
  • Leslie Crawford

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "The 'story' is ludicrously naive, and the nudist content, filmed at the North Kent Sun Club, Orpington, consists of the usual lazing around and swimming, plus a slight novelty in a nudist beauty contest: it should be pointed out, however, that the entrants in the contest are filmed in close-up, so that judging is, apparently, on facial beauty alone."[5]

References

  1. ^ "My Bare Lady". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  2. ^ Overview of "My Bare Lady," Turner Classic Movies
  3. ^ Chibnall, Steve; McFarlane, Brian (25 July 2019). The British 'B' Film. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-863-3.
  4. ^ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 46-47
  5. ^ "My Bare Lady". Monthly Film Bulletin. 30 (348): 23. 1963. ProQuest 1305822785 – via ProQuest.