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1967 film by George Harrison Marks
The Naked World of Harrison Marks
is a 1966 British
pseudo-documentary
about adult film director and photographer
George Harrison Marks
starring Marks,
Valentine Dyall
,
Pamela Green
and
June Palmer
.
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Plot
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The film looks at Marks' daily life and work, with added dream sequences.
Cast
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- Valentine Dyall
(narration)
- George Harrison Marks
- Pamela Green
- June Palmer
- Jerry Lorden
- Ann Wilson
- Terry Mahern
- Beryl Gilchrist
- Teresa Baron
- Karen Birch
- Jacky Brown
- Claire Burden
- Deloritte Chune
- Dawn Grayson
- Derek Nichols
- Christopher Williams
- Jutka Goz
- Chris Bromfield
- Vicky Groves
- Julie Jorden
- Ann Walker
- David Roberts
- Cindy Lomond
- Annette Johnson
- Sam Stuart
- Ken Hayes
- Audrey Judson
- Marina Jones
- Deborah De Lacy
- Sandy Lyndon
- Cleo Simmons
- Lee Southern
Production
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The film was mainly shot at Harrison Marks' studios at Lily Place, London, with the occasional location such as Ewhurst Manor.
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It was during the auditions for the film that George Harrison Marks met his future wife, Toni Burnett.
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Release
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Despite censorship troubles with the
BBFC
due to its abundant
nudity
,
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it ran for over a year in London's West End.
Critical reception
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The Monthly Film Bulletin
wrote: "A study of the life and works of Harrison Marks, photographer of nudes. Endless shots of nude models posed against a variety of garish backgrounds are interspersed with dispiriting scenes in which Harrison Marks judges a beauty contest, works on some glum-looking home movies, or acts out a coy farce about the difficulties involved in photographing a cat. Long, repetitive and exceedingly boring, the whole thing is shot in raffish colour and accompanied by a fulsomely silly commentary: "Harrison Marks is a dreamer, and the city of London is the centre of all his dreams" ? cue for a few routine picture-postcard exteriors."
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Kine Weekly
wrote: "Since he is producer, director, part author and star of the film, one can assume that it expresses the personality of Harrison Marks and the commentary, which Harrison Marks also interrupts at intervals, suggests that he is a photographer who can be compared with a composer, even perhaps a poet. There Is a long sequence in which he is disguised as
Toulouse Lautrec
. There is also a tiresome burlesque shooting a film and other amateurish episodes that almost entirely counterbalance the star's undoubted talents as a photographer with an eye for colour and design as well as for nudity."
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