When the Baroness fled those taunting boys, lifting her skirts as she stood above them on the dining table, they obviously saw a lot of leg close-up. I'm sure countless boys reached puberty in that very scene.
Wouldn't it be ironic that their tormentor was probably their first adolescent crush as well?
She was just about my first crush, and I was a boy when I first saw this movie. I'd also think Gert (the baron) as much as he was playing his murderous role would have been quite turned on by his baroness in a corset showing a lot of leg and tightly wrapped curvy body.
As a boy, I wasn't too interested in the concept of the film until the Baroness appeared in lingerie. Seeing Melodie Johnson disrobe and prance around in "Ride to Hangman's Tree" was a similar revelation for me at the time.
Surely, Gert Frobe must have had a difficult time playing a disinterested and murderous spouse when his sexy costar played the scantily-clad coquette. Had to have been a lot of sexual tension on the entire set with Anna Quayle around.
Yeah, but at least all the boys appreciated seeing Melodie take it off!! Anna Quayle always had this betty boop style to her, you just had to want her.
shareAll I know is that I'd be a very happy satisfied man with the baroness around. I'd seek her out each morning and start my day the chu chi face way :)
shareI wonder if Truly's "Doll on a Music Box" number also had a role this (in a "technosexual" sort of way)!
http://www.p-synd.com/winterrose/technosexuality.html
In the classic movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the character of Truly Scrumptious is dressed in an Austrian Dirndl, and made up to look like a wind-up doll. Benny Hill, the toymaker, winds her up and she proceeds to do a little song and dance number, after which she slows to a stop when her mainspring winds down.share
How about the boy who poured the goblet down the noblewoman guest's cleavage, and that isn't a euphemism, it's in the film!
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