Three friends, Petrina (Forsyth), Jackie (Salt), and Pamela (Green)—they use their real first names in the film—go on a walking tour at whose end, on a rocky beach, they meet Bridget (Leonard) and Angela (Jones)—ditto—bathing nude; the three friends then agree to frolic au naturel with the others, who afterwards introduce them to their nudist gang.
This is a delightful film: the story is engaging, taking us to Stonehenge, Tintagel, and Land's End, the music is lovely, and all five girls are beauties. Pamela Green was one of Harrison Marks most famous models, and though I've seen plenty of photographs, and saw her in her brief appearance in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom, this is the first time it's been clear to me how delectably voluptuous she is. That Jackie and Bridget have particularly plump tushes, too, and Angela is strikingly beautiful. Since, moreover, Marks is a real artist who not only knows how to block and frame but also how to edit, the film never bores you visually and the story never flags.
From the IMDB page: "Director George Harrison Marks met Pamela Green years before when he was
a photographer and she was a nude model. She had been a nudist for
years, so she had no issue with taking her clothes off for the camera.
He enjoyed working with her so much he asked her to buy out his partner
and come into business with him. As equal partners, they set up a
limited company and brought out the first issue of Kamera, a nude,
figure-study magazine that hit newsstands in 1957. A huge success, it
spawned publication of Solo, another monthly magazine. They also started
producing their own 8mm glamour films, but after investing a large
amount of money into it, they discovered there was no market for 8mm
films and the studio floundered. They made this feature length film
hoping to recoup profits. They didn't. It was only shown at one very
small cinema and never had a general release. They were forced to
dissolve the business."
While no Kurosawa, Godard, Truffaut, Wenders, Wertmueller, Greenaway, Altman, Woody Allen, Ron Howard, Mel Gibson, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Chaplin, Sam Fuller, Howard Hawks, Zach Snyder, Quentin Tarentino, Michael Curtiz, Billy Wilder, Ida Lupino, Alain Resnais, Stanley Kubrick. Kevin Costner, or Scorsese, Marks has made a movie that bears watching more than once. The Grindhouse Clipper is glad to publish this copy for men of culture to enjoy.