The Naked Truth
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Movie Reviews of The Naked Truth
Movie Review: excellent Brit comedy- Sellers and Terry-Thomas wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
Another excellentBrit comedy spoof- wonderful imagination. Pic gives Sellers opportunity to show his diversity- and Terry-Thomas is at his best before he came to the US to decline. DEnnis Price shows that Brit ability to go from one kind of pic (Kind Hearts) to another character.Movie Review: Stoic British Humor at its Best!
Summary: 5 Stars
Terry Thomas soaked to the brow protruding nonchalance in his wifes presents is worth a dozen Peter sellers. If you haven't seen the naked truth you haven't ever really laughed. After you have seen this one you will want to see it again.Movie Review: Your Past is Showing (recommended)
Summary: 4 Stars
You can't judge a book, or in this case, a movie, by its cover. From prior reviews, I knew beforehand that THE NAKED TRUTH was not, as the title may suggest, risque. As the credits begin rolling, I was surprised to discover the title either didn't go over well with British audiences or the movie was renamed for more impact. Don't be surprised when the title sequence names the film YOUR PAST IS SHOWING.
THE NAKED TRUTH is, as Lord Mayley (Terry-Thomas) says, "a rather vulgar" title for a scandal magazine. It's editor, Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price), digs up dirt on prominent victims and blackmails them with a sample issue. With the oft-repeated phase, "Pay in a fortnight or I publish in a month," the targets of his extortion are left in suicidal despair. Led by multiple disguises of Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), several would-be victims, including Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton of GOLDFINGER fame) revolt with a plethora of unsuccessful murder plots against Dennis.
Armed with British humor, prepare for numerous disguises, madcap adventures, and unexpected surprises.
Movie quote: "Are you crazy? We've just been killing ourselves trying to murder him!"
Movie Review: Light-Hearted British Comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
The selling point for "The Naked Truth" is that it features a young Peter Sellers. Truth be told this is more of an ensemble effort and not what you would call a break-out role for Sellers. Sellers as a "Scottish" television personality is given the opportunity to employ a number of disguises and voice characterizations that are amusing but not fitfully so. The film's central premise of a group of prominent Brits who conspire to dispatch a blackmailing tabloid publisher(Dennis Price of "Kind Hearts and Coronets") is played more for broad slapstick than for the macabre dark comedy of classic Ealing comedies. These observations aside this is a highly enjoyable film with a good laugh quotient. Solid cast also includes the irrepressible Terry-Thomas and Shirley Eaton("Goldfinger").Movie Review: Name change of film
Summary: 4 Stars
This film was released in the US in the 1950s with a different name: "Your Past Is Showing." I remember it as a very funny film, but I was a teenager then. Sellers is priceless, though, and a number of his bits here presage his turn as Clouseau starting a decade later.