Mr.Shalamar would be skewered in a sexual harassment lawsuit if he did the things in this movie today.
His parts in this movie could be used in a training film.
Oh yes, use this as a training film because his technique is so subtle....fondling the secretary's knee/thigh under the table, patting secretaries on the ass, pinching them and trying to make out with them in his office.
shareIn my world.....he would have been wearing two black eyes, and some painfully
swollen assaulted "knuts," while sitting in the Human Resources Office,
as I pressed formal charges!!
"OOO...I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
If you think he is bad in the film read the book, his harrassment knows no bounds.
Siri
Don't Make Me Have to Release the Flying Monkeys!
I, too, loved the book. So ahead of it's time!
And, with respect to the 'dirty old man' aspect, when my friend and I visited her Mum in Scotland in 2000, her Mum's neighbour frequently made inappropriate passes at women (including my poor friend who he kept trying to put his arm around)...Another one actually involved a female doctor who tried to assist him when he'd fallen down drunk. BUT, this was a very small village. And, he was in his 70's...
Hopefully, that sort of bad behaviour will eventually be gone!
'There’s a name for you ladies, but it’s not used - Outside a kennel! (Crystal Allen in The Women)'
Poor April, she didn't know what hit her! I LOVE the 50s but I sure am glad we've moved on from a time when that behaviour was perfectly fine.
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