Naked Came the Stranger

Director: Radley Metzger

1975 / 83min / DCP

“A porno based on a prank. The 1969 bestseller Naked Came the Stranger was a sex-in-the-suburbs potboiler attributed to ‘Penelope Ashe’ but actually written by 24 Newsday journalists. In this X-rated adaptation, Metzger takes the hoax as a sly analog for his own Henry Paris subterfuge, resulting in perhaps his most playfully self-conscious film: a freewheeling spree of winking nods and cinematic games.” —Rob King, series curator, film historian and author of Man of Taste: The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger

Introduction by Rob King on Saturday, April 18th

Part of The Erotic Cinema of Radley Metzger: Restorations