GO NAKED IN THE WORLD

US, 1960, 103 minutes, Colour.
Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Franciosa, Ernest Borgnine, Luana Patten, Philip Ober.
Directed by Ranald Mac Dougall.

Go Naked in the World is a popular best-seller style film of 1960. Films like this, from best-sellers, were becoming popular - and presenting a more vivid, sometimes lurid picture of behaviour on the big screen. New paragraph was written and directed by Ranald MacDougall?, a writer who also directed the apocalyptic film The World, The Flesh and the Devil. It is a starring vehicle or the glamorous Gina Lollobrigida as well as for Tony Franciosa and offers a character part for Ernest Borgnine.

The film has lavish New York settings as well as Mexican holiday affluence. It is highly melodramatic in the soap opera, later mini-series vein.

1. A film of the '50s and '60s, best-seller style, melodrama? Enjoyable? Seen in retrospect and the changing styles of the '50s and '60s? Greater permissiveness on screen?

2. The use of Panavision, colour, New York settings, Mexico? Gloss? The musical score?

3. The credibility of the characters, the situations? The lives of the rich and famous?

4. Tony Franciosa as Nick: age, army experience, his experience at home, the dominance of his father, the Greek background, his love for his mother, her lack of forcefulness? His return, not going home, the encounter with Julie and the infatuation? The night with her, love? Hurt by her disappearance? The clashes with his father, emotional highs and lows, possibilities of reconciliation? His decision to find Julie, the lyrical time together? Wanting to marry her, taking her to the party, the truth? His being hurt and resentful? Paying money to find her? The decision to marry, walking the girder to defy his father about the money? Mexico, happy times, his not understanding her change, her death? Finally seen with his father?

5. Julie and her glamour, wealth, relationship with Nick, ignoring his phone calls, the audience knowing who she was? His finding her, the reconciliation? The humiliation of the party? Hiding, going to Mexico? The decision to marry? Nick's father arriving and their talk, her decision to pretend to be a wild call-girl again, her excesses, suicide?

6. Pete Stratton and his bullish manner, Greek background, treatment of his wife, workaholic, big business, the American Dream, pressures on Nick, pressures on his daughter, the party, the exposure of Julie, arranging her arrest, talking with Nick, defying him on the girder, his heart attack? His going to Mexico and the talk with Julie, influencing her? Her death? A reconciliation with his son?

7. The sketch of his wife, her seeing herself as invisible, her decision to leave, the reconciliation, his need for her? The daughter and the boyfriend, her father ousting her?

8. The world of glamour, call-girls, the wealthy, the nightclubs, the clients? Acapulco?

9. Soap opera, best-seller style, American manners and morals and their consequences?