The Sexplorer (US title: The Girl from Starship Venus, UK re-release title: Diary of a Space Virgin) is a 1975 British sex comedy film written and directed by Derek Ford and starring Monika Reingwald.[1] It was produced by Morton M. Lewis. A hardcore version of the film was also made for the foreign market.[2]

Plot

A Venusian explorer, adopting the form of a human woman, visits planet Earth to study the behaviour and customs of Earthlings. She lands in a Soho sauna, and discovers from the Soho bookshops that humans come in male and female forms. She investigates further, visiting a sex cinema, sex shops and a photographer's studio. She meets and falls in love with a young man, and with him she discovers the pleasures of sex. She decides not to return to Venus.

Cast

  • Monika Ringwald as The Explorer
  • Mark Jones as lecher
  • Andrew Grant as Allan
  • Anthony Kenyon as man in cinema
  • David Rayner as photographer
  • Beatrice Shaw as old lady
  • Michael Cronin as doctor
  • Prudence Drage as sauna attendant
  • Anna Dawson as store manageress
  • Tanya Ferova as stripper
  • Chris Gannon as store detective
  • Alan Selwyn as bookshop manager
  • Roy Scammell as ballet dancer
  • Juliet Groves as ballet dancer
  • Albin Pahernik as man in toilet

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "The Sexplorer is meant to be funny as well as erotic, introducing an element of supposed self-parody through the person of its otherworldly sexologist and the 'bizarre' activity on which she turns a quizzical eye, whilst striving of course for the usual quota of titillation. Unfortunately, as it is totally lacking in wit or style, the selfparody acts as a banana skin on which the film slips in its first minutes, falling flat on its face and remaining quite inert for the subsequent eighty minutes."[3]

References

  1. ^ "The Sexplorer". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. ^ Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0857682796.
  3. ^ "The Sexplorer". Monthly Film Bulletin. 42 (492): 160. 1975 – via ProQuest.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sexplorer
No tags for this post.