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The Immoral Mr. Teas is the first commercially successful film of director Russ Meyer, released in 1959. The film was described as a nudist comedy, and was noted for exhibiting extensive female nudity. The film cost $24,000 to produce, and eventually grossed more than $1.5 million on the independent/exploitation circuit.
- $24,000
- Peter A. DeCenzie
- Edward J. Lakso
- Bill Teas, Ann Peters, Marilyn Wesley
The Immoral Mr. Teas R 1960 1h 3m Comedy List 80% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 20% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Russ Meyer wrote and directed this tale of a salesman who spends his time fantasizing...
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- Russ Meyer
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- Bill Teas
Sep 22, 2004 · Meyer’s “The Immoral Mr. Teas” (1959), hailed by the highbrow critic Leslie Fiedler as the funniest comedy of the year, created the skin flick genre, and after the box office success of his “Vixen” (1968) he was crowned “King of the Nudies” in a front-page profile in the Wall Street Journal.
Brief Synopsis. Read More. Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters beautiful "well-developed" nude women, which of course stir his interest.
- Russ Meyer
- Bill Teas
The Immoral Mr. Teas not only marks the emergence of one of the most interesting and disputed “auteurs” of the American cinema, but also proved to be a crucial film in the emergence of more risqué adult cinema. Not only in terms of exploitation and pornographic cinema, but in paving the way for more lax rules for Hollywood, which was at ...
Synopsis by Mark Deming. With The Immoral Mr. Teas, Russ Meyer reshaped the adult film industry (such as it was in 1959). In a genre that ran to documentaries about nudist volleyball tournaments and shame-based soap operas about the dangers of VD, infidelity, and teen sex, The Immoral Mr. Teas was a colorful, well-photographed, breezily witty ...
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TOP CRITIC. A remarkable little film, funny and wistful. Full Review | Jan 1, 2000. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. The...