The Defenders (TV Series) The Naked Heiress (1962) User Reviews

Educational in its way

[opusv5 · 8/10 · 7 April 2018]

A drunken college professor dies accidentally, but not before the mother of a striptease artist (as they were then known as) he has befriended has fooled him into leaving the daughter his estate. The ensuing legalistic conflict goes beyond actual law to confront guilt, morality, morals, and the hypocrisy governing those in the "adult industry" who are desired yet despised by those not above seeking their favours. This was one of the better, and more mature, episodes in the first season of a good series. That the stripper in question was shown - and realistically so - as a decent, bright person trying to better herself makes one question stereotypes. Salome Jens was particularly good as the stripteaser.

The not so blue angel

[schappe1 · 7 October 2016]

A college professor has become infatuated with an ecdayist and, in a drunken stupor has signed a paper prepared by her manipulative mother leaving her his estate, which had been promised for a scholarship fund for his university. the man tries to stagger home but fell in front of a subway train and the young stripper is suddenly worth $185,000. The school hires the Prestons to make a case against the new will.

Both Prestons are initially in contempt of the stripper and her mother, viewing them as gold-diggers. They are right about the mother but not about the daughter, a sensitive, intellectually curious young woman who was forced into her sleazy profession by her avaricious mother and who was legitimately in like with the professor and perhaps more than that because he introduced her to a new world and other possibilities.

Ken falls for the young woman while his father remains contemptuous- until the climatic hearing when she rebels against her mother.