French filmmaker Claude Lelouch's unexpected entry into mondo territory, La femme spectacle, purports to tackle the topic of "female sexuality" in Paris and other European cities. With Jean-Pierre Kalfon from Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers and Janine Magnan (Lelouch's Life Love Death) sandwiched in among the strip routines, hookers, cross-dressers, and that old roadshow standby: the birth reel. Bob Cresse's Olympic International distributed it stateside as Night Women on the heels of Lelouch's international hit A Man And A Woman, which did not feature a birth reel. Press materials offered theater owners the option of imposing a "men only" admittance policy as if dictated by some unnamed force.
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