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She Raises More Than Eyebrows!
A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.
Cool It, Carol!
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The Dirtiest Girl I Ever Met, La vergine e l'amante, Kuuma Carol, Oh, Carol, Min eisai toso thermi Carol, Fri fräck kärlek, Die Liebesmuschel, 卡罗尔!, 卡罗尔！
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UK
04 Apr 1972
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Sweden
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Sweden
04 Apr 1972
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01 Dec 1970
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Pete Walker’s British comedy. Joe (Robin Askwith) and Carol (Janet Lynn) are an unexperienced couple who depart their tiny town for success in London's adult showbiz culture.
The story concerns two tiny-town teenagers (Janet Lynn and Robin Askwith) who locate to London’s West End and become embroiled in prostitution before getting fed up of big-city life.
Robin Askwith and Janet Lynn both give okay performances in their respective roles as Joe Sickles and Carol Thatcher, the couple involved who fall for one another, then get involved with adult circumstances and then don’t really have an idea as to what to do with themselves, which makes it irritating for the viewer.
Elsewhere, Jess Conrad as Jonathan, Stubby Kaye as Rod Strangeways…
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Another for students of Robin Askwith’s bare backside - surely out more than the miners in 1970s Britain.
You could probably pair a film for every hair on that over-exposed derrière such was the frequency of its appearance in practically every film the man appeared in - and to such little gain each time.
Films such as this exist only for those tentative moments of nudity and sex—should lying dead still on top of someone constitute copulation— but that the scraps of flesh are so occasional and coy when they arrive after acres of piffle and procrastination, you wonder how starved people were of titillation (if not the real thing) to sit through such waffle and still come back next time lured…
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London, 1970: perverts, pimps, ponces, pornographers, and old men luridly licking their lips.
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Hofbauer-Kongress 2019: Film #3
Sleazy drama about an aspiring bullshit artist who exploits his underage girlfriend. The editing in this joint is pretty strange and confusing, the sloppy softcore inserts added later by the distributor aren't helping. This contains enough terrifying close-ups of old ugly dudes' faces for decades of nightmares.
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If you like your sexploitation rainy, miserable, and very, very British, then Cool It, Carol is the film for you.
A cautionary tale of life in big, bad London, it even has some laughs and a really likeable lead couple in Askwith and Lynn.
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Ein paar Qualitäten hat der Film: eine wahrhaft infernalische Szene, in der ein Pornofilm gedreht wird, die Mod-Mode der englischen Spätsechziger und eine äußerst attraktive Hauptdarstellerin. Das gleicht aber die träge Dramaturgie dieses oft auf der Stelle tretenden Films und seine amateurhafte Sprunghaftigkeit nicht aus.
Die DF ist sinnentstellend synchronisiert und mit Sexinserts versehen; gleichzeitig von der FSK um Erotik gekürzt - daher ist ein restlos faires Urteil nicht möglich. -
A welcome discovery. It could so easily have got lost down the usual seedy route, but there's actually a really delicately played 'fish(es) out of water' story bubbling underneath. Askwith - not one known for nuance - gives possibly his best ever performance. And Janet Lynn is just right for her role.
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Significant step-up in all departments from Pete Walker’s earlier feature forays into saucy comedy. Whilst not without flaws, the more nuanced script from Murray Smith affords Walker the chance to touch on elements of drama and characterisation sorely lacking from say I LIKE BIRDS and SCHOOL FOR SEX. Most notably, Walker manages to anchor the film to the impressive and endearing performances of his two young leads Robin Askwith (of The Confessions of… series and later Walker’s own THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW) and Janet Lynn. A real shame the latter of which didn’t appear to go on to find the fame afforded her male co-star. As the titular Carol, Lynn is the real standout of the movie.
Note: Also…
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In this early softcore sexploitation film from the pre-horror days of Pete Walker(FRIGHTMARE[1974],HOUSE OF WHIPCORD),a young guy(Robin Askwith[HORROR HOSPITAL,CONFESSIONS OF A WINDOW CLEANER]) and his even younger girlfriend(Janet Lynn[ASSAULT{1971},TWINS OF EVIL]) leave their small countryside town for the glamour and the big lights of London,where Lynn finds immediate work while undertaking various jobs as a nude model and moving on to skin flicks while Askwith has to keep his cool while doing through with the deal in keeping his relationship with Lynn moving well along. COOL IT,CAROL ! pretty much examines the emptiness and seedy side of life in the big city with Lynn's older bosses being portrayed as predatory men whom Lynn allows to take advantage of her while…
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Falling at the exact middle point between the Swinging Sixties movies and 70's Sex Comedies, this tale of a naive couple of kids travelling to London and falling into pornography and prostitution to make ends meet is an odd one.
It comes from Brit auteur Pete Walker who would later and more famously move into horror. And taking a slightly more serious approach to to idea that would have been the case a few years earlier and very much more serious than what would come a few years after, you might be expecting a cautionary tale, but it's not.
In fact the way it ends may well leave you wondering whether or not what we had seen was actually real or just a fanciful flight of imagination.
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