SECS Fest presents Naked Came the Stranger

Naked Came the Stranger d. Radley Metzger / 1975 / 83 min July 5 at 10 pm at the Beacon Cinema Billy and Gilly host New York’s most provocative and successful morning talk show. But their lascivious on-the-air personas are masking a far less than voracious home-sex life. Everything comes to a head when Gilly discovers that her seemingly faithful husband is carrying on with his “Love Bunny” Phyllis. At first hurt by his infidelity, Gilly quickly decides that she too ought to expand her sexual horizons and, with that in mind, begins an over-the-top game of seduction as she beds each of her and Billy’s high society friends. Erotic auteur Radley Metzger second feature directed under the pseudonym “Henry Paris,” NAKED CAME THE STRANGER was adapted from a best selling novel of the same name, written pseudonymously by a group of Newsday journalists (“25 men and one beautiful woman!”) as an infamous literary hoax. With a cast of 70s hardcore greats, this hilarious satire of American sexual more iss filled with Metzger’s trademark sparkling visuals and sophisticated humor. Billy “Radley Metzger was the Rolls Royce of '70s porn directors, and this one has all his frills: striking compositions, sharp dialogue, nice fashions, creatively ‘elegant’ low-budget production design, Wellesian editing, and scenes where people find ways to have sex without removing most of their clothes. There's also a silent-movie interlude that reminded me a bit of the one in CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, and a lot of impressive guerrilla-style filming in the streets of Manhattan. For all the pornographic business she engages in, leading-lady Darby Lloyd Rains is never more charismatic than in the party scene where she's dressed like Marlene Dietrich from MOROCCO. They don't make 'em like this anymore. They didn't even at the time!” - Will Sloan Founded by the Seattle Erotica Cinema Society in 2016, SECS Fest celebrates a diverse range of sexually explicit representations, finding beauty in erotic difference and inspiring adult conversations about sex. Dedicated to bringing world-class erotic movies to Seattle screens all year, SECS Fest is also delighted to partner with The Beacon for a series of monthly screenings, leading up to the 2025 edition of SECS Fest in November! For more info, see: https://www.secsfest.org/

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