The Immoral Mr. Teas

Hollywood: Pad-Ram Enterprises, 1959. Vintage pressbook for the 1959 film.

A door-to-door dental appliance salesman has a chemical reaction to an anesthetic which grants him X-ray vision, as in "seeing through women's clothes." He subsequently overcomes all of his inhibitions, leading to ribald encounters with his dental nurse, his therapist, his secretary, a girl in a bar, etc.

Russ Meyer's first feature, produced by Pad-Ram Enterprises (a monogram using the initials of director Russell Albion Meyer and producer Peter A. DeCenzie), the film that basically launched the lighthearted nudie pictures of the early 1960s. At a time when Hollywood moguls were losing audiences to the comfort of in-home cinema through television, Meyer and DeCenzie (who spent years on the burlesque and nightclub circuits) released an independent, naturally sexy endeavor in the tradition of the great Chaplin films.

For his debut, Meyer did even more of the crew work than usual, shooting in four days during the spring of 1958 with a budget of $24,000, ultimately making over $1.5 million worldwide. The film was marketed as a "Frenchy," "nudist" film, but exhibited all the distinctive traits for which Meyer would soon become known, including large bosoms, insane plots, an arguably feminist perspective, campy dialogue, and guerilla cinematography.

Shot on location in various California destinations, including Malibu Lagoon State Beach.

One leaf, bifold. 11 x 17 inches. Very Good plus overall.

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