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| The Naked Truth [1957] | ![The Naked Truth [1957]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/417WS0KE67L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Mario Zampi
Actors: Terry-thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price
Studio: ITV DVD
Category: Video
Buy New: £6.99
Buy New/Used from £1.49
Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 15454
Format: Black White, Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 88 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
EAN: 5030370608532
ASIN: B000064207
Release Date: May 27, 2002
Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 1958
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In 1957's IThe Naked Truth/I Terry Thomas plays a dodgy peer of the realm being blackmailed in the company of Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount and Shirley Eaton by a gutter press journalist, Dennis Price ("Don't try to appeal to my better nature, because I haven't one"). One fascinating element in this picture is the portrayal of those relationships that could be only suggested in a period of tighter censorship, such as Peter Sellers' TV personality and Kenneth Griffith as his dresser, whose gay relationship is only faintly etched in here. More overt is the characterisation of a masculine looking authoress, known only by her initials, but sporting Agatha Christie's hairdo. The moments of slapstick are brought off to a tee, as when the larger-than-life Peggy Mount attempts a suicide drop from her window to be saved by an awning on a shop front. p BOn the DVD:/B IThe Naked Truth/I comes to DVD in 4:3 ratio and with a mono soundtrack. The only extra feature is a trailer. More TT tomfoolery can be found in the three-disc ITerry Thomas Collection/I. --IAdrian Edwards/I
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Blackmail! November 2, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An entertaining film with an excellent cast. Blackmailer Dennis Price (a wonderful performance) targets a number of celebrities including Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount and Terry-Thomas (playing a rather dishonest Lord) who all have something to hide - Price threatens to reveal all in a scandal magazine he produces called "The Naked Truth". The celebrities decide to take steps...with hilarious results!
 'So Many Great Performances' May 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved Terry Thomas, almost anything that he was in I found funny. That said, this film stands out from a lot of his others in the respect that not only is Terry superb in his usual role but so many others also give their very best performances here to. The story revoles around a magazine called 'The Naked Truth' that specialises in publishing celebrities/well known peoples darkest secrets. The editor of the magazine makes most of his money however out of blackmailing those that are prepared to pay to prevent him from publishing. The scene where Terry's character is at first revelling in looking at a copy of the magazine before he realises that he is about to be the next to be blackmailed is incrediby funny! Peggy Mount, and Peter Sellers are also exceptionally good in this film and the antics and scenario's they all get involved in together here are sublimely farcical to the point of hysteria! Trust me, if you love old fashioned British Comedy you will love this!
 Flawed reproduction mars classic June 8, 2003
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic film and I was looking forward to watching it in DVD quality but I was to be disappointed--twice so far.pThis is the second DVD of this film that I have purchased from 'Borders' and this is the second version which has been spoilt. Where there is a dark background in the film with a character in darkness--eg. Terry Thomas as he makes his way across the gangplank of the barge--the foreground information blurs and melts and mars the image. This is not what DVD is about. I have taken one version back and I've just looked at the new one--exactly the same. Anyone else noticed this. Until they fix it don't buy.
A brilliant classic comedy June 15, 2002
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant film. Joan Sims portrayal of a panic stricken daughter is one of her best roles. The film is very funny and with stars such as Terry Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Dennis Price and Joan Sims, it is a laugh a minute. The story is about celebrities who are being blackmailed. The ending is a classic. It is a must to watch if you have never seen it before and if you have seen it before, it is a treasure to watch again and again.
Overlooked and underrated masterpiece June 2, 2002
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Peter Sellers as Wee Sonny McGregor has to be one of the funniest and most venal characters in British films of the Ealing Period, one of his cleverest performances, switching from slapstick goonery to snide villainy in a display of his complete mastery of the craft of comedy.pIn fact The Naked Truth is packed with the greatest British comedy actors playing ensemble farce to perfection. You may remember it and have hazy recollections of "Galloping Alopaecia", "Looking For A MIckey Finn" and a heavily disguised Sellers attempting to buy some explosives in an Irish pub ("Ooh my nose"). The plot is uneven, the premise far fetched - but only as much as the average Fawlty Towers. Honourable mention to Terry-Thomas, so adept at seemingly playing "himself" that his subtle artistry as an actor has long been overlooked. Peggy Mount is completely absorbing, the timing of her double act with Joan Sims a master class in character dynamics. The whole piece underpinned by the clever premise that none of the characters is particularly wholesome but none so wonderfully wicked as the suave and ever resourceful Dennis Price, who blackmails them with the threat of exposing their darkest secrets in his scandal magazine, "The Naked Truth" (a sort of LA Confidential but in a 50s British showbiz setting).pBuy the DVD, it's a classic, and you can replay the last five seconds of the Irish pub scene over and over without wearing out a VHS cassette!
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