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the hot + bothered flying nun


scope the "memorable quotes" section .... some naughty lines by Mr & Mrs McBee.... i guess the hays commission was kaput by 1967. i guess its no surprise that the sound & music was done by S&M Productions....

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I saw this last week. Sally Field was looking pretty damn cute. Not hot, but very sexy cute.

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It's a bit shocking to see Sally Field play a prairie horn dog chasing "three legged boys", a Westward Ho if you will. However, she is treated gently compared to women in other Westerns made in the sixties and seventies, which often showed gratuitous graphic violent rape. Anyway, Sally is a little ray of sunshine in an otherwise rather grim tale.

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Did anyone else think her hair was an unusual color in this film? Like it had grayish/blonde streaks.

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Those were what was called "frosting" back in the late 60's. Silver was the color but it looks grey on screen. If you watch the Brady Bunch reruns all the girls and Carol Brady had them, too. Today we call it highlighting and uses way different colors.

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Yeah, it looked like dark hair turning grey, & given how young she was, it looked strange. Also, with the time frame the story takes place, I don't think there were products that could be used to frost/highlight the hair that way.

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My mother had her hair frosted in the late 60s. She looked like a skunk. Anything is possible in films even in Westerns. All of the women had 60s hairstyles too with a little teasing.

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Like Cruella DeVil?

< She looked like a skunk>

As long as you don't smell like one.

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One side was white and the other side was black. Hideous.

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Sally Field's character was a big flirt in this movie. I will never look at SF the same way after seeing this film and that's a good thing.

I can now see what Burt Reynolds may have liked about her when they dated.

Also, I liked how they had her wearing a loose Indian style dress rather than the usual prim long dress that Hollywood usually dresses the womenfolk.

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Definitely the hottest i've ever seen her as well, just shows that she has that side to her which is a very good thing.

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