Sandy the Reluctant Nudist

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Sandy the Reluctant Nudist
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Stanley Pelc
Written bySusan Mitchell
Michael Deeley
Produced byMichael Deeley (credited as "M.D. Lee")
CinematographyTerry Maher
Production
company
Avon Productions
Distributed byGala
Release date
  • March 1966 (1966-03)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sandy the Reluctant Nudist (also known as The Reluctant Nudist,Sandy the Reluctant Nature Girl and Sandy) is a 1966 British nudist film directed by Stanley Pelc and starring Annette Briand and Jeremy Howes. [1] It was produced by Michael Deeley; his girlfriend wrote the script and his mother did continuity. [2]

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Premise

18-year-old Sandy is supsicious when her boyfriend David is sometimes unable to see her at weekends. She hides in his car and discovers he is visiting a nudist camp where he is the star swimmer. When she is discovered, David's friends Allan and Bridget show her around the camp, and she decides to join.

Cast

Release

The film was made in 1963 but was not released until 1966. [3]

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "'Within a few minutes the basic situation is presented, and anyone unable to predict what will happen some 40 minutes later would be spectacularly undiscerning. In the interim all runs its dully predictable course through feeble dialogue and acting, plus the usual coyly staid shots of activities and grouped poses by the personnel at a nudist camp – in this instance photographed at Spielplatz Camp, Hertfordshire, which here appears to be blessed with eternal sunshine." [4]

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References

  1. "Sandy the Reluctant Nudist". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  2. Deeley, Michael (2009). Blade Runners, Deer Hunters and Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: My Life in Cult Movies. Pegasus Books. pp. 22–24. ISBN   978-0571239207.
  3. Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books. ISBN   978-0857682796.
  4. "Sandy the Reluctant Nudist" . The Monthly Film Bulletin . 33 (384): 63. 1 January 1966 via ProQuest.