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This is one for the books...

posted 20 years ago by slooo1
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I read a number of years ago that Mr. Crawford was the first full frontal nude male in a major motion picture (after the Hayes Code took effect). He was in a long since removed scene from The Andromeda Strain.

Like they said in the book The Fight Club, projectionists were always cutting out nudity and splicing in one single frame into Disney flicks. The reason for this was that the brain barely registers this single frame, but it does register it. You'd think the copy they studio has would have Mr. Crawford taking his nude decent into the space-station-like laboratory.

I have looked for prints from this lost movie moment (he doesn't even list it in his IMDb.com tally). But I have had no luck finding it.

Does anybody know anything more about this?

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[–] lcrews 20 years ago

It wasn't The Andromeda Strain (he was never in that). The movie you're thinking of is The Naked Ape. An edited-for-TV version is out there on the bootleg market, minus his full front nudity. However, stills of these scenes can be pretty easily found.

[–] bethanne88 19 years ago

Where?

[–] finforum 19 years ago

A photo of it was in Playboy magazine's "Sex in Cinema." I have old Playboys from the late '60s through the mid-'80s, so I might be able to find it.

[–] The_Dying_Flutchman 17 years ago

I especially liked watching him eat cremettes.

Nothing is more beautiful than nothing.

[–] skydvr38 17 years ago

There are extensive nude scenes in 'The Great Texas Dynamite Chase '
Haven't seen the movie, but there are stills floating around the net from this movie --- frontal and back

[–] columntwentyfive 13 years ago

I remember watching this movie on television a long, long time ago. I've looked for it on Netflix, but they don't have it listed. Anyone know where I might be able to find it? Thank you.