I saw Three in the Attic in a theatre about 1970 or so. The version I saw had substantial amounts of nudity. A couple of years ago I bought a VHS tape of the movie off E-Bay. However, the version on the tape was not the same as I saw in theatre. All of the nude scenes had been edited out and replaced with some sort of distorted psychelic-like camera work. Does anyone have any idea why this was done?
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That was Janet Leigh, not Vivien Leigh.
shareIt's a 1968 AIP film so I can't see how this ever had substantial nudity. Nudity in 68 was fleeting and tame. I have a copy on the way so I am hoping ints uncut.....
share"Nudity in 68 was fleeting and tame." That's wrong because I've seen a lot of movies that had lots of nudity in them from 1968. Sure, the mainstream movies didn't have as much, but the low budget grindhouse movies had lot of sex and nudity in them. And although the sex was mostly simulated, 1968 was the year where more hardcore movies started to come out.
shareSpeaking strictly of "Three in the Attic" (while hopefully addressing the OP's question): I saw this movie when it came out — probably more times than just about anyone else. I was working in a theater at the time of its first run, and we showed it for at least two weeks, if not more. Then it was brought back a few months later on a bill with a couple of other films. As an Yvette Mimieux fan, I saw it as many times as I could get away with without neglecting my duties. I even saw it a couple of years later on a double bill with "Three in the Cellar" (also known as "Up in the Cellar").
I can tell you this: "Three in the Attic," while it featured a a fair amount of skin on display, featured no "nudity" in the usual sense of nipples, butt cracks, or other, even more intimate areas. In that era, none of the movies shown in the theater I worked in ever showed any such thing; I certainly would have taken notice if this one did.
I'm not aware of any re-edited version of "Three in the Attic" that ever featured such a thing either. Like most films of the time, there was the suggestion of sex, but it stopped quite a bit short of portraying much of it.
There was another version of "Three in the Attic" and I saw it, didn't know about this one. I remember Brooke Adams was one of the girls and I'll have to think some more on the male actor. I can see his face but not the name. The other version went along the same lines as the summery and preview of the old one, but I sure enjoyed the later one to come. All American actors. I never forgot that movie.
YES there was another, newer version.
There was another version of "Three in the Attic" and I saw it, didn't know about this one. I remember Brooke Adams was one of the girls and I'll have to think some more on the male actor. I can see his face but not the name. The other version went along the same lines as the summery and preview of the old one, but I sure enjoyed the later one to come. All American actors. I never forgot that movie.
YES there was another, newer version.
Hell i'm watching it on youtube right now YOUTUBE. the only nudity was Christopher jone's backside and a side shot of judy pace booo-tay
BTW i understand this an epoch piece and all but this sucked. nudity would've help
Is it possible the OP is remembering images of nudity that his imagination imagined as he watched the film way back when? I know that when I saw "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" years later I could have swore the actress who removed her blouse showed a lot more than what I had remembered as a young man in '69.
shareBased on various comments on this board and not having seen it completely, just why would it be rated "R"?
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