# What was the first film with nudity that I/you saw? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2007, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486 "2007-03-04T00:21:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/101 "2007-03-06T21:04:03Z")
I snuck in to a drive-in double feature of _Kentucky Fried Movie_ and _Groove Tube_ when I was 12 – the summer of 1978. This must have beat out _Animal House_ by a little bit. The drive-in is now condos, and I am now old. I’m sure I’ve aged better than those movies, though. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/102 "2007-03-06T23:26:01Z")
I remember seeing Mandy Patinkin’s bare ass in _Yentl_ when I was about seven years old. It probably made a big impression because I was watching with my parents, and was kind of embarrassed and tried to be very mature and just not react at all. I can’t remember the first female nudity I saw. It may have been in _Romeo and Juliet_. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/103 "2007-03-06T23:34:20Z")
The last movie we went to with out parents was “Planet of the Apes”. Does that count? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/104 "2007-03-07T00:24:12Z")
In the theater: [Under The Rainbow](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083254/), a justifiably forgotten 1981 screwball comedy set in Hollywood in 1939, remarkable mostly for Carrie Fisher (pre-_RotJ_) in her underwear. An undersized German spy (Billy Barty) is trying to rendezvous with his Japanese contact (who is disguised as a camera-toting tourist). Unfortunately, the hotel where they are to meet is not only playing host to a busload of camera-toting Japanese tourists, but is also invaded by an unruly mob of Munchkin extras from the nearby _Wizard of Oz_ set. The grand finale chase scene takes a detour through a ladies’ shower room, offering as much skin as a PG rating would permit. On TV: probably one of the old-fashioned burlesque shows that HBO would air from time to time back when it was the only cable channel around. Heavier on the tease than the strip, it was nonetheless quite an education. In fact, I planned my “too sick to go to school” days around the HBO schedule. ---
**Author:** ![squarebob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@squarebob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squarebob)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/105 "2007-03-08T05:09:59Z")
I don’t remember the title of my first nude movie, maybe one of you guys could identify it. It’s about a guy who spends the entire move trying to get laid. He gets close but doesn’t achieve orgasm until the end. Here are the scenes I remember. He’s at high school in the stands of the gymnasium where some sort of meeting or game or pep rally is taking place. He sees one of the cheerleaders bouncing up and down in her seat, then realizes she’s on his buddy’s lap, the movie switches to a slow motion clip of the bouncing cheerleader, At one point he is outside of his house, looks in the bathroom window, and sees his sister squeezing her nipples while she sings opera style. A “boring” is heard, signifying his erection. The sister notices him, screams for their parents, who come rushing into the bathroom. The father starts to leer at the daughter. Later main character and his buddy are running around, end up crossing the Mexico border. A Mexican hooker flashes them. The buddy starts squeezing her tits. The hooker says she’s not going to pop her cherry until she’s 18, and then it’s going to cost a grand. In another scene, our protagonist is in a hotel room where a porno is being filmed; a girl he knows is the female star. The male star (Big Al?) has trouble performing. The girl tries to encourage him, but to no avail. The main character ends up at a girl’s house, and the girl’s mother is prancing around the house with her robe open. The girlfriend is upset (“Damn you, Mother!”) but the hero makes his move on the girl and finally achieves orgasm. I think the movie depicts several nudes (flashbacks?) at the point of orgasm The movie may not have been produced in the US and may be dubbed to some degree. Does this ring a bell with anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/106 "2007-03-08T05:50:21Z")
[QUOTE=jackelope] I actually watched _Flesh Gordon_ again not long ago; I’d told my wife the foregoing story about the drive-in, so she rented the flick to surprise me and we watched it. That movie totally sucked. [/QUOTE] The released movie was an X. The tape, or DVD, is an edited R, and I believe the X rated version no longer exists. The original was quite good (I saw it in college when I could appreciate it) but I agree the R rated version sucks. I think my first was MASH, but I had seen so many Playboy pictorials on sex in the movies that the real thing kind of wasn’t as interesting as being able to study the stills. And another vote for Deathstalker II. A great and underrated movie, with lots of jokes you need to look fast for. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2007, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/107 "2007-03-08T11:38:44Z")
**Thunderbolt and Lightfoot** - some woman walking about in the nude behind some patio doors. On a Betamax tape, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Hildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@Johnny\_Hildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Hildo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/108 "2007-03-09T19:37:36Z")
For me, it was Joanna Cassidy in _Blade Runner_. Thanks for leaving me alone in the hotel room with HBO that day, Dad! ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/109 "2007-03-09T20:15:17Z")
I’m pretty sure it was either **Airplane!** or **Used Cars**. IMDB says they both came out in 1980. In that case, it was likely **Airplane!** because I saw that in the theater with my parents, but **Used Cars** we rented on Beta (I think for my birthday party, if I’m remembering right!). ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/110 "2007-03-09T21:37:46Z")
“Women in Love”, based on the book by DH Lawrence, and starring a memorable Alan Bates and Oliver Reed wrestling, both in the nude. Both glistening with sweat. Both looking–good heavens!–VERY masculine. I was, oh, about 12 at the time it came out (1969-1970), and it was showing at the local “arthouse” cinema. Sneaked in w/ a couple gradeschool girlfriends. Can’t say I understood a thing about the movie, but sure recall all the naked scenes, & there were a couple of the women (Glenda Jackson, plain woman with nice breasts, & Jennie Linden, pretty woman with nice breasts) as well as the famous wrestling scene. Didn’t realize there was so much “floppage” of male appendages until I saw that scene at that tender age, I guess. I dunno what I though prior to seeing that, but more than likely didn’t think of guy’s equipment at all. I was certainly wowed. –Beck ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486/111 "2007-03-10T14:19:26Z")
The Vampire lovers,a Hammer horror production. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-the-first-film-with-nudity-that-i-you-saw/394486.md?page=5)