{Film Review II [continued]}[24th February 1973]

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            The combination of Britt Ekland and Mark Lester in Night Hair Child was physically devastating.  The exploitation of that factor in the unfinished strip-tease so characteristic of censored commercial cinema – viz., Britt Ekland’s full frontal concealed behind Mark Lester’s head, and Mark Lester’s hidden by a sponge in the bath – may be not only frustrating or irritating but downright dangerous.  It’s not so much that I am now going to creep around in the night and rape blonde girls (or blond boys); the infuriating thing is that the cinema, under the guise of ‘liberalism’, is frantically putting back the layers of frustration, inhibition and fear as fast as more enlightened and far-seeing minds attempt to strip them off.  The resulting combination – titillation of inhibition – can be disastrous.

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