Constance Towers

Michael Dante

Anthony Eisley

Virginia Grey

Patsy Kelly

Marie Devereux

Karen Conrad

Linda Francis

Bill Sampson

Sheila Mintz

Edy Williams

Betty Bronson

Jean-Michel Michenaud

Patricia Gayle

George Spell

Christopher Barrey

Patty Robinson

Betty Robinson

Breena Howard

Sally Mills

Monte Mansfield

Barbara Perry

Walter Mathews

Neyle Morrow

Gerald Milton

Fletcher Fist

Michael Barrere

Paul Dunlap

Jerome Thoms

Stanley Cortez

Sam Firks

Leon Fromkess

Samuel Fuller

Harry Thomas

Peter Zinner

Eugène Lourié

Leonard Corso

Einar Bourman

Al Overton Sr.

Frank Dugas

Victor A. Gangelin

John Dutton

Nate Levinson

Herbert G. Luft

Tom Coleman

Crime

Drama

The Naked Kiss

Leon Fromkess-Sam Firks Productions

Allied Artists Pictures

United States of America

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When "Kelly" (Constance Towers) meets "Griff" (Anthony Eisley) on a park bench she is armed with nothing but a smile and a case of champagne. She's a saleswoman for the stuff, don't you know! Suffice to say, the two end up drinking a bit of her stock and this starts the ball rolling on a relationship that is full of ups and downs, pitfalls, betrayal and we even get a song. We learn pretty quickly that "Kelly" is escaping a rather seedy past and that "Griff" isn't all he's cracked up to be either. Soppy melodrama? Well no, actually. The two - and a solid, if unremarkable, supporting cast edge this story forward in quite an innovative, almost exciting, fashion. There is a chemistry between Towers and the rather bland Eisley that keeps this bubbling along as they constantly try to out-manoeuvre one another. Might they even be in love in this epitome of middle-class dullness and double standards that they find themselves living? It doesn't hang around with a solid, sometimes poignantly effective, script and the fact that there isn't an out and out star here helps focus on the performances and the story a bit more. It oozes a sexiness in an understated sort of fashion and though I doubt I will ever watch it again, I did find it (her) quite compelling to watch.

English

The Naked Kiss - Il bacio nudo (1964) Trailer