Day 12:01 am

  • The Flesh Is Weak… Brylcream and bad intentions…

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    The Flesh Is Weak-1957-Afterhours Sleaze and Dignity-4THEY THREATENED US ‘DO NOT MAKE THIS FILM!’

    SOHO VICE… WILL SHOCK LONDON AND SCARE THE PROVINCES”

    Ah well, you can’t say fairer than that. The Flesh Is Weak – early(ish) Soho shennanigans exploitation number from 1957… all brylcream and bad intentions.

    Possibly file not too far away from Cosh Boy in terms of shock and titillation (which was also the first British film to receive an ‘X’ Rating and starred a near-just-starting Ms Joan Collins).

    And talking of the artwork that accompanies films (see Day #2/365a) – I have something of a softspot for seeing how such things wander off around the world…

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    Peruse the film here.

     

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