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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?

[–] MystMoonstruck 12 years ago

I have to point out that male frontal nudity occurred long before "The Naked Ape". For example, I'm sure that Alan Bates and Oliver Reed appear sans clothing in the notorious fireside wrestling scene in "Women in Love" (1969).

"Kes" (1969) also has male nudity, including frontal as I recall.

From Wikipedia:
John Frankenheimer's 1966 sci-fi thriller "Seconds", starring Rock Hudson, contained an extended sequence of full frontal male and female nudity that was deleted from the original American release in which bohemian revelers dance and play in a wine vat.

So, Johnny baring himself in "The Naked Ape" and "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" occurred well after these other scenes.

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[–] liscarkat (18429) 3 years ago

I remember Richard Harris running with his pee-pee flopping around in "A Man Called Horse" (1970).