i must have seen a different film!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Did you know that Allen Funt became friends with a singing duo named Boyce and Hart. These singers wrote and sang a song "Hey! What do you say to a naked lady?" Allen Funt loved this song so much that he took it one step further and made this movie from their song. Later he even got them an appearance on the TV show "Bewitched" where they sang for a TV audience for the first time. The song writing duo of Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart went on to write hundreds of songs for various performers and wrote many television scores. When this movie came out in 1970 many theaters were closed down for showing "obscene material". This created a backlash so much that people started showing up at the theaters with only a raincoat on or naked with a big purse. The movie is not great for content, but is wonderful for telling us about our history in the 70's.

Originally X rated version of Allen Funt's Candid Camera TV show. This involves people running into naked women (and men) in the most ordinary situations. One involves a totally nude woman trying to get help with her car that broke down. Another has a nude woman in an office building casually waiting for the elevator. Another has a nude statue of a man that starts talking to a secretary at work.At first this was funny but it gets tiresome. It's basically different variations of the same joke done over and over again. The reactions are hilarious however, the movie has a very light-hearted tone and all the nude people (men and women) are attractive. This was cut down in 1982 to get an R rating and that's the version I saw...but it was long enough. My favorite reactions: a guy looking at a nude woman up and down while waiting for an elevator casually says to her, "Nice outfit"; a secretary while on the phone tells a nude talking male statute near her desk to be quiet! So it is fun but it's just the same thing over and over. I'd love to see the complete X version someday.

WHAT DO YOU SAY TO A NAKED LADY is basically a risqué "Candid Camera" episode stretched out to feature length with, um, lots of full-frontal action from both genders. But that's not (really) the interesting part. It's a fascinating glimpse into the public's newly relaxed attitude towards sex, circa the sexual revolution, covering the public's opinion towards everything from public nudity to interracial dating. Truly a time capsule, with wildly varied reactions from a cross-section of Americans - racial, ethnic and age differences are all included. The most revealing segment was the one with the college instructor. (Do I need to mention she was naked?) Interesting that the "mature" older women were reduced to giggling schoolgirls while the young students kept their poise. Or were both groups aware of the ruse but the elders weren't compelled to respect authority as the kids might have been?Anyway, my favorite victim was the woman who kept her cool while chatting with the nude male model. Loved her reaction when the jig was up. What a stitch.

This movie remained a hysterical look at sex that i could not help but enjoy. The editors cut the footage perfectly in the "Spray can scene" and made me break out in laughter just watching the difference between the girls' orgasms. Different sequences with different sex related themes made this a documentary great. This docu-comedy is pure genius ***1/2 out of ****