NAUGHTY! is a cheesy and occasionally delightful pseudo-documentary about sex in Britain through the ages. There's a lot of historical vignettes done on a low budget and a lot of humour here, and the best thing I can say about it is that it's considerably better than George Harrison Marks's similar effort, THE NINE AGES OF NAKEDNESS. Director Stanley A. Long has an 'anything goes' approach to this movie, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink, and the resultant concoction is always entertaining.
Sex in all its facets is explored through scenes which range from the tame to the surprisingly bad taste and explicit. Thus we look at the history of prostitution, those repressed Victorians, and of course the then-modern era. We see bashful gentlemen exploring the Soho district and a geeky Scottish guy shooting a porn film. There's even time for a nasty WITCHFINDER GENERAL inspired segment and a look at venereal disease. Occasionally the film becomes something of a dated time capsule, for example in the narrator's attitude towards homosexuality. There's a heck of a lot of nudity packed into the running time as virtually every actress in the film strips off for some softcore fumbling at some point, and a surprising amount of funny bits as well. Hardly profound entertainment, but entertaining for fans of this kind of fare.
Sex in all its facets is explored through scenes which range from the tame to the surprisingly bad taste and explicit. Thus we look at the history of prostitution, those repressed Victorians, and of course the then-modern era. We see bashful gentlemen exploring the Soho district and a geeky Scottish guy shooting a porn film. There's even time for a nasty WITCHFINDER GENERAL inspired segment and a look at venereal disease. Occasionally the film becomes something of a dated time capsule, for example in the narrator's attitude towards homosexuality. There's a heck of a lot of nudity packed into the running time as virtually every actress in the film strips off for some softcore fumbling at some point, and a surprising amount of funny bits as well. Hardly profound entertainment, but entertaining for fans of this kind of fare.