The Naked Kiss
Kelly (Towers) is a prostitute who shows up in the small town of Grantville, just one more burg in a long string of quick stops on the run after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police chief Griff (Eisley), who then tells her to stay out of his town and refers her to a cat-house just across the state line.
Instead, she decides to give up her illicit lifestyle, becoming a nurse at a hospital for handicapped children. Griff doesn’t trust reformed prostitutes, however, and continues trying to run her out of town.
Kelly falls in love with J.L. Grant (Dante), the wealthy scion of the town’s founding family, an urbane sophisticate, and Griff’s best friend. After a dream-like courtship where even Kelly’s admission of her past can’t deter Grant, the two decide to marry. It is only after Kelly is able to finally convince Griff that she truly loves Grant and has given up prostitution for good that he agrees to be their best man.
Shortly before the wedding, Kelly arrives at Grant’s mansion, only to find him on the verge of molesting a small girl. As he grinningly tries to persuade her to marry him, arguing that she too is a deviant, the only one who can understand him, and that he loves her, Kelly strikes him with a phone receiver, killing him instantly. Jailed, and under heavy interrogation from Griff, she must convince him and the town that she is telling the truth about Grant’s death.
As Kelly tries to exonerate herself, one disappointment follows another, and enemies old and new parade through the jailhouse to defame her. In despair, she is at last able to find Grant’s victim and prove her innocence.
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This film was incredibly brave to make when it was released. Criminally Dismissed as a "b" movie or sensationalist fooder due to the themes explored..
How relevant are those themes even into the present? Great. Brave. Constance powers in combination with the other cast do an absolutely sterling job.
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Great movie. Caused such a stir when it was released that in effect it was intentionally ignored. It seems that what's morally not only acceptable but "cool" – a lifestyle choice, was once considered a heinous crime. That didn't change. Society has. The woman's life is a tragedy, and the child's is ruined. Today's society enables the abusers. Children are sexualized. We all can turn on a TV and see what has happened to the values of men and women. Still, this is also a great "old" film to watch inasmuch as it is TRUE that you could take a bus, sit in a park, take a pleasant room in a lovely house, etc. The world was safer, cleaner, and kinder. By the way John Gavin, the actor, became Ambassador to Mexico and his lovely wife Constance gave up acting and became a full-time ambassador-ess. A lovely, gracious woman.
This seems like b movie gold. 7:56
Why is this movie in the "family" section? It is not for children.