Some Like It Cool

Some Like It Cool
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMichael Winner
Written byMichael Winner
Produced byAdrienne Fancey
StarringJulie Wilson
Marc Roland
Music byJackie Brown
Cy Payne
Distributed byS F Films
Release date
  • May 1961 (1961-05)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£9,000[1]

Some Like It Cool is a 1961 British naturist film directed by Michael Winner and starring Julie Wilson and Marc Roland.[2]

Plot

Jill likes to sunbathe in the nude and persuades her fiancé Roger to visit a nudist camp on their honeymoon.

Production

It was partly filmed at the Marquess of Bath's estate at Longleat.[citation needed]

Cast

  • Julie Wilson as Jill
  • Marc Roland as Roger
  • Wendy Smith as Joy
  • Brian Jackson as Mike Hall
  • Thalia Vickers as Jill Clark
  • Douglas Muir as Colonel Willoughby-Muir
  • Vicki Smith as partygoer

Box office

Michael Winner liked to boast that the film's budget was recouped in two weeks.[3]

Critical reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This painfully amateurish nudist film carries the usual promotional arguments, with happy, healthy naturists, crabbed opponents, and the sort of nudist goings-on which wouldn't bring a blush to a church outing."[4]

Kine Weekly wrote: "Titillating, yet innocuous British gimick offering. ... The production visits several established nudist camps and its artless tale of victory over prejudice blithely bounces from one amply uphostered posterior to another until it arrives at its conventional happy ending. Thalia Vickers and Mark Rolland act adequately as Jill and Roger, Douglas Muir "hams" effectively as Colonel Willoughby-Muir, and Julie Wilson, the well-known naturist, appears. The rest strip reasonably well. A clean romp in the "altogether", it's currently turned the Cinephone, Oxford Street, into the commercial travellers' Mecca."[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Simon Sheridan, Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema, Titan Books 2011 p 40-41
  2. ^ "Some Like It Cool". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  3. ^ Doing Rude things: The History of the British Sex Film. Wolfbait Books. 2017. p. 36. ISBN 9781999744151.
  4. ^ "Some Like It Cool". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 28 (324): 100. 1 January 1961 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ "Some Like It Cool". Kine Weekly. 528 (2798): 28. 18 May 1961 – via ProQuest.


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