The Naked Kiss
"Shock and Shame Story of a Night Girl!"
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
"Shock and Shame Story of a Night Girl!"
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
Constance Towers
Kelly
Michael Dante
J.L. Grant
Anthony Eisley
Capt. Griff
Virginia Grey
Candy
Patsy Kelly
Mac, Head Nurse
Marie Devereux
Buff
Karen Conrad
Dusty
Linda Francis
Rembrandt
Bill Sampson
Jerry
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
When "Kelly" (Constance Towers) meets "Griff" (Anthony Eisley) on a park bench she is armed with nothing but a smile and a case of champagne. She's a saleswoman for the stuff, don't you know! Suffice to say, the two end up drinking a bit of her stock and this starts the ball rolling on a relationship that is full of ups and downs, pitfalls, betrayal and we even get a song. We learn pretty quickly that "Kelly" is escaping a rather seedy past and that "Griff" isn't all he's cracked up to be either. Soppy melodrama? Well no, actually. The two - and a solid, if unremarkable, supporting cast edge this story forward in quite an innovative, almost exciting, fashion. There is a chemistry between Towers and the rather bland Eisley that keeps this bubbling along as they constantly try to out-manoeuvre one another. Might they even be in love in this epitome of middle-class dullness and double standards that they find themselves living? It doesn't hang around with a solid, sometimes poignantly effective, script and the fact that there isn't an out and out star here helps focus on the performances and the story a bit more. It oozes a sexiness in an understated sort of fashion and though I doubt I will ever watch it again, I did find it (her) quite compelling to watch.
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