Some Like It Cool Explained

Some Like It Cool
Director:Michael Winner
Producer:Adrienne Fancey
Starring:Julie Wilson
Marc Roland
Music:Jackie Brown
Cy Payne
Distributor:S F Films
Runtime:61 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English
Budget:£9,000[1]

Some Like It Cool is a 1961 British naturist film directed by Michael Winner and starring Julie Wilson and Marc Roland.[2]

Plot

Jill likes to sunbathe in the nude and persuades her fiancé Roger to visit a nudist camp on their honeymoon.

Production

It was partly filmed at the Marquess of Bath's estate at Longleat.

Cast

Box office

Michael Winner liked to boast that the film's budget was recouped in two weeks.[3]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This painfully amateurish nudist film carries the usual promotional arguments, with happy, healthy naturists, crabbed opponents, and the sort of nudist goings-on which wouldn't bring a blush to a church outing."[4]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Titillating, yet innocuous British gimick offering. ... The production visits several established nudist camps and its artless tale of victory over prejudice blithely bounces from one amply uphostered posterior to another until it arrives at its conventional happy ending. Thalia Vickers and Mark Rolland act adequately as Jill and Roger, Douglas Muir "hams" effectively as Colonel Willoughby-Muir, and Julie Wilson, the well-known naturist, appears. The rest strip reasonably well. A clean romp in the "altogether", it's currently turned the Cinephone, Oxford Street, into the commercial travellers' Mecca."[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 40-41
  2. Web site: Some Like It Cool . 29 December 2023 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  3. Book: Doing Rude things: The History of the British Sex Film . 2017 . Wolfbait Books . 9781999744151 . 36.
  4. 1 January 1961 . Some Like It Cool . . 28 . 324 . 100 . ProQuest.
  5. 18 May 1961 . Some Like It Cool . . 528 . 2798 . 28 . ProQuest.