1960s British or French sex comedy with bare breasts

Saucy! reveals how 1970s British sex comedies put boobs on screen and bums on seats, and examines the industry's unsavoury side

A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.

Early 70s sex comedy

Cult Epics is delighted to present this compilation in its series of Vintage Erotic Films. Shortly before the rise of mainstream pornography in the USA, the French and other Europeans produced a series of erotic loops for the theatres with a feeling of private and sleazy allure. The 1960s was a new period in music, fashion and film, which transcends to these erotic timepieces. This DVD shows a variety of amateur footage of sexual interaction between couples, groups, lesbians, hipsters and mods, offering a stimulating visual experience.

20 Years before the rise of 1970’s hardcore films in the U.S., the commercial pornography produced by the French unleashed a new era of Erotic Cinema. Suddenly, unlike the common “stag” films of the time, scripts, multiple camera angles, and title credits were introduced into erotic productions. These extended 15-minute films were intended for private viewing in the back rooms of stores, in homes, and at local brothels. The themes of many of these films were bondage and burlesque; images similar to those produced by Irving Klaw in the U.S. The main difference being that in France the filmmakers would show on-camera sex, and nudity. These films stand out, not only for being ahead of their time, but because they transcend the standards of much of what is being produced today.

French adult film

In the 1950s and 1960s, a parade of gorgeous young girls traveled to Hollywood, looking to be discovered by casting agents and big-time movie producers. Some achieved their dreams of fame, but others ended up in "independently" produced short films in which these nubile would-be starlets were asked to throw their modesty - and clothes! - to the wind. Instead of wearing designer gowns opposite Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, they posed in nylons, garter belts, and spike heels - or, more often, nothing at all! These movies were meant to show the modern woman at her most private - performing household chores, shaking it to the latest twist record, or working on her tan - all of which, it seems, was better done naked, or in stunningly elaborate lingerie. Though the names of the women featured in this collection are lost to history, their sex appeal is still very much apparent today.

In the 1950s and 1960s, a parade of gorgeous young girls traveled to Hollywood, looking to be discovered by casting agents and big-time movie producers. Some achieved their dreams of fame, but others ended up in "independently" produced short films in which these nubile would-be starlets were asked to throw their modesty - and clothes! - to the wind. Instead of wearing designer gowns opposite Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, they posed in nylons, garter belts, and spike heels - or, more often, nothing at all! These movies were meant to show the modern woman at her most private - performing household chores, shaking it to the latest twist record, or working on her tan - all of which, it seems, was better done naked, or in stunningly elaborate lingerie. Though the names of the women featured in this collection are lost to history, their sex appeal is still very much apparent today.

Six scantily dressed women chat while freshening up. At the instigation of one of them, all get up and perform a brief choreography. This short, naughty scene was to be watched in private: it could only be seen through a Théoscope, a home cinema, dating back to the turn of the 20th century.

The Saucy 70's were an extraordinary period in cinema, sex and nudity in mainstream films exploded and new subgenres of films emerged. Nunsploitation, blaxploitation, grindhouse, woman-in-prison, European giallos and sex comedies, and of course, the ever-popular 'young woman's erotic journey' films that were so prevalent, took nudity in cinema to greater heights.