The Flesh Is Weak

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• The film is weak...

   

  By a customer from Bodmin , 02 Nov 2009

  [Highly rated reviewer]

  ...was hoping this might be a bleakly effective piece of 1950s lowlife, but while it's certain an exploitation flick, it creaks badly in all departments. John Derek obviously had his mind on Ursula Andress, who he was about to marry (in real life!) - presumably he had no idea that Linda Evans and Bo Derek were on the horizon. Milly Vitale is just terrible, especially at crying. William Franklyn as a crusading hack was more convincing in the Schweppes ads. Apart from one or two murky location shots at the beginning the whole thing is set in a distinctly cardboard-looking Soho/Shepherds Market. A couple of effective cameos by Shirley-Ann Field and Miriam Karlin provide the only high(ish) points, apart from a rather startling (for 1957) hint of fellatio.
  
  Interesting footnote: music (not that it's particularly good) is by Tristram Cary, son of Joyce Cary (author of The Horse's Mouth) and electronic music poineer, involved a few years later in Dr Who.

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