Victim of the Sexual Revolution

This holiday turkey flew into theatres the week before Christmas and was gone by New Year's Eve. Nobody wanted to see it. All the hype, all the promotion, all the talk about a possible X rating and "How far will they go?" was for nothing becuase if asked to descrbe CANDY I would say "Picture a Doris Day/Rock Hudson comedy only less erotic". Yes, you heard me, less erotic.
What makes the film interesting today is knowing that at the time (1968)the movie industry was pulling its love beads out trying to figure out how to connect with the hipper, younger audiences, and also how to make a dirty movie taht wasn't that dirty (VALLEY OF THE DOLLS had the same problem the year before). So what we get is a few scenes of Candy (or her body double) getting screwed with her panties still on, and a quick breast shot near the end in the scene with Brando (who looks great by the way). Deffinately a relic of its time, a great companion piece to BARBARELLA, Julile Andrews STAR! and Streisnad in FUNNY GIRL - all released around the same time and all resulting in various degrees of box office success and failure. These films each represent how the times were not a-chanin' - they had changed.