The Immoral Mr. Teas

The Immoral Mr. Teas 1959 is the first commercially successful film of director Russ Meyer. 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 1,500,000 on the independentexploitation circuit.

Mr. Teas Bill Teas is a doortodoor salesman for dentist appliances who delivers on his bicycle. Teas is a clumsy and shy man, who likes to watch happy couples and daydreams when looking down the necklines of women he meets. The only way that he is able to have sex is with a prostitute. After undergoing surgery at the dentist, Teas realizes that the anesthetic has overcome his inhibitions, and given him Xray vision, enabling him to see all women without their clothes. He is happy at first, but gradually begins to be embarrassed. For example, he goes to the river and sees three girls swimming, and he sees them as naked. The three girls are those he sees daily the dental nurse, a secretary and waitress in the bar. Teas decides to go to a psychoanalyst, and he also sees her naked. The voiceover says On the other hand, some men are happy to be sick.Before this film was released, the only moving pictures exhibiting extensive nudity were either underground covertly produced and distributed pornographic films, typically distributed under the counter in 16mm black and white movies, or naturist pictures, openly displayed in specialized movie theaters, usually under the cover of exhibiting the fun and freedom of nudism in naturist reserves nudist camps. ........

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