Micro-budget specialist W. Merle Connell, who'd been churning out roadshow features such as Test Tube Babies since the 1940s, capped off his career with this 1960 nudie cutie in the wake of Russ Meyer's The Immoral Mr. Teas from the previous year. The amorous advances of Henry (Hank Henry from the 1957 musical Pal Joey) are rebuffed by his hair-curler'ed wife, a role credited to "Valkyra," so he retreats into fantasy scenarios involving chastely posed naked women. Among the latter are Betty Blue from Paul Morrissey's Women In Revolt (1971), Lisa Drake (Robert Mulligan's The Rat Race), and The Touchables' Doris Gohlke. Also with diminutive burlesque comedian Jack Little, star of Connell's 1950 featurette Tomb Itmay Concern. Produced by porn legend and Betty Blue spouse Ted Paramore (Jane Bond Meets Thunderthighs).
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