Love, Swedish Style

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Love, Swedish Style
Directed byMaurice Smith
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish

Love, Swedish Style is a 1972 American sex comedy film directed by Maurice Smith.

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Reception

The Boston Globe said it had "an ample sample of horseflesh." [1]

The Journal and Courier called it "about as erotic as a peanbut butter sandwich (without jelly) and about as blah as whitebread." [2]

Cast

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References

  1. "Films". The Boston Globe. 18 August 1972. p. 29.
  2. "Can Inge Find Happiness?". Journal and Courier. 3 January 1973. p. 21.