Take Off Your Clothes and Live!

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Take Off Your Clothes and Live!
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Arnold Louis Miller
Written byArnold Louis Miller
Produced by Stanley Long
Arnold Louis Miller
CinematographyStanley Long
Music byTony King
Production
company
Searchlight-Miracle
Distributed byMiracle
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
64 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£14,000 [1]

Take Off Your Clothes and Live! is a 1963 British naturist film directed and written by Arnold Louis Miller. [2] It was partly shot in the south of France. [1]

Contents

Plot

Nine girls travel to Cannes, for a nudist holiday with hosts John and Tony. As well as the usual beach activities they visit a millionaire's yacht, go on a treasure hunt, have a Twist competition, and visit the Isle of Levant.

Cast

Release

Kine Weekly reported that the UK release of the film was supported in Bradford, Dewsbury, Westcliff and Luton with personal appearances by five of the girls in the cast. [3]

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "Usual traveloguery, usual coy commentary, usual tolerably pretty girls, usual yawning boredom." [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 47-48
  2. "Take Off Your Clothes and Live!". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  3. "There's a big audience for romps in the raw" . Kine Weekly . 552 (2900): 19. 2 May 1963 via ProQuest.
  4. "Take Off Your Clothes and Live!". Monthly Film Bulletin . 30 (348): 70. 1963 via ProQuest.