How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment (1965) User Reviews

Rare oddity...thank you Renown Pictures.

[kittenkongshow · 4/10 · 16 June 2021]

Renown pictures new set - The Slightly Saucy Box Set - Unleashes this rarity on the world.

Featuring Cary On players Jon Pertwee, Fenella Fielding (Narration) and a very brief cameo from Kenneth Connor this film also features several striptease's (Topless Only...it is 1965).

It's more a curio than a lost gem but as I'm a big fan of British Sexplotation it's a discovery for me.

Others On Set - David Jason in White Cargo, Joanna Lumley in Games That Lovers Play, Not Tonight Darling, Sunshine Sweethearts & Miss Bikini.

Renown are also the wonderful people behind Talking Pictures TV the best channel on TV!

The Ritual Undressing of the Ango-Saxon Female

[richardchatten · 5/10 · 27 October 2021]

The whimsical title gives a pretty good idea of what to expect from this nonsense "Devised produced and directed" by the director of 'The Seventh Veil'. You know you're settling down to a unique experience when it commences with Reginald Beckwith performing a striptease (mercifully not seen completed) and Jon Pertwee then appears as Adam. The most truly provocative feature of this innocuous little filler is the voice of Fenella Fielding as one of the narrators, while the funniest thing about it is probably that it originally carried an 'X' certificate.

How to dress in Public With Embarrassment.

[morrison-dylan-fan · 5/10 · 25 April 2022]

Getting home after going with a pal to the fantastic Brum Brew Fest in Birmingham over the weekend,I felt like watching a movie before going to bed. Checking Talking Pictures free online catch-up service,I spotted what sounded like a merry Comedy, which led to me dressing up for a viewing.

View on the film:

The very last movie he would make, (he would go on to co- create the TV series Brett, a show sadly now believed lost) writer/director Compton Bennett & cinematographer Ronald Anscombe dress the flick in a flirty Nudie Cutie atmosphere, wearing a surprising level of skin on show from men and women, displayed in swift comedic sketches, which go from Adam (played by a cheeky Jon Pertwee) and Eve, to the modern day.

Playing out as a Silent movie anthology, the screenplay by Bennett is performed with relish by Fenella Fielding and John Deacon (not from Queen), whose playful sardonic narrations bring a sense of fun to the frolics of learning how to undress without embarrassment.

Neither funny nor erotic

[malcolmgsw · 5/10 · 20 November 2021]

This film was made on the cusp of the era when anything went. The comedy is unfunny,though watching Reginald Beckwith doing a striptease is worth all the dross. The striptease sequences are hardly daring,and the women are hardly erotic.

Oddball

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 20 October 2021]

Certainly an oddball effort, a series of striptease-themed vignettes with a bunch of CARRY ON actors along for the ride. I watched this mainly for the presence of these stars and Jon Pertwee is funny in particular, although others like Reginald Beckwith and Kenneth Connor have blink and you miss 'em cameos. Weirdly, these dated comic moments are interspersed with genuine strip routines with a wealth of topless nudity, and the comedy and exploitation never really gel.

Why?

[evans-15475 · 3/10 · 10 September 2021]

I can only assume someone went out and invented the internet so we could see nipples for free in the comfort of our own homes after paying to see this at the cinema,who it was aimed at in the swinging sixties I've no idea.and just to rub salt in it none of the topless actress went on to be famous.

Jon Pertwee's majestically muscular mugging proves to be an unexpected delight!

[Weirdling_Wolf · 8/10 · 7 September 2021]

It might be somewhat disingenuous to label this barmy titbit of mid-60s British B-Movie burlesque a 'nudie-cutie', but with its plentiful burlesque buffoonery, and sequential slapstick n' tickle, this joyfully absurdist, mildly prurient Jon Pertwee-starring comedy of bawdy manly mishaps, verbal claptrap, and ever increasing idiocy, while tremendously silly is, quite frankly, all the more entertaining for it! The more B-Movie tolerant viewer can readily expect to experience a zestfully performed, though not exactly stylishly mounted series of modestly titillating immodesty, and these mildly salacious skits about a nation of stiff upper lips hypocritically ogling a giddy gaggle of glamorous girls thrupenny bits is not without momentary edification! Not on par with Joseph Sarno or Doris Wishman, this manifestly British unashamedly lowbrow, high camp, immodestly silly comedy might have, perhaps, been all but forgotten were it not for the majestically muscular mugging of enigmatic, rubber-faced genius Jon Pertwee, and the mellifluous narration of the altogether fabulous Fenella Fielding is the creamy filling in this only occasionally delectable slice of cinematic cheesecake.