''World Without Shame'' is a 1962 British

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film directed and written by

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and starring Yvonne Martell. It was produced by Winter and

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Plot

After winning on the

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, a group of young people leave London to begin a new, carefree, naturist life on a deserted Mediterranean island.

Cast

* Yvonne Martell * Larry Bowen * Diane Valeri * Jean Robert * Laurel Grey * Paul Christian * Laura Beaumont * Michael Troy

Critical reception

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'' said "From the naturist standpoint, this nudist film is much like any other, if a trifle less eventful and duller than usual. The most intriguing feature to the unconverted onlooker is the reasons advanced for the party's enterprise: escape from commercialism and the establishment, freedom from conventions, escape from nuclear hazards. The health-promotion aspect, usually the main propaganda element, is here relatively underplayed." ''

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'' wrote: "The script, acting, dialogue and commentary are pretty flabby, and the same goes for most of the naked 'charmers,' but incidental popular romantic and humorous touches, plus exotic backgrounds, get it by. ... The picture is the latest, but by no means the snappiest, contribution to the current nudist saga. Its story, 'communal

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,' has little shape and the players seldom rise above its shortcomings, yet it contains an agreeable love interest, a few spontaneous comedy asides, fascinating underwater swimming, and some artistic posing by the one girl with a shapely figure. These attributes, heightened by authentic tropical scenery, not only take up part of the slack, but also compensate for flatulent dialogue, pontificating on the chaotic conditions in our atomic bomb threatened world."

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1960s English-language films British drama films Films directed by Donovan Winter