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'But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane'


I'd admit it, I only got between halfway and two-thirds of the way through this movie when I had to stop watching. I think there's a problem with comedy when everyone wants to be the funny guy, and no one wants to play the straight guy. I mean, someone has to set things up and react to the funny guy. And in this movie, everyone is so "zany" that it's just self-indulgent. Not funny. Painful. Which is too bad, because I've liked a lot of these performers in other movies.

So then I started to skip through the rest of the movie, and hit the point where the robot Thinko has a dream sequence. I thought this was a movie for teens, but Thinko's dreams are of a series of women stripping for him, including baring their breasts. Not only that, but a couple of them sidle up to the robot and start thrusting their hips against him (Thinko is a robot in a human form).

As far as I could tell, none of the four strippers was in the rest of the movie. It's not like Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, or Brigitte Bardot's kid sister. It felt like that sequence in Ed Wood's Glen Or Glenda with mild bondage, stripping, whipping, etc., that turns out to have been random (more or less) footage inserted by the producer to pad out the movie. Except in that movie it worked. Here it's just WTF?

Anybody out there know the history of this movie?

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TCM just showed this as part of a Mamie film night. No strippers and no THINKO perving. At the end Mamie mentions THINKO proposed to her. That proposal was not in this edit either. Looking it up it seems there was an adults only version for the raincoat demographic.

From wiki:

Sex Kittens Go to College (also known as Beauty and the Robot) is a 1960 American comedy film starring Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld and Mijanou Bardot. It was also released in adult movie houses including a dream scene of the robot, Sam Thinko, and some striptease dancers.

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