The Au Pair Girls

Description

Sexual high jinks ensue when four sexy, mini-skirted cuties arrive in London, all hoping to brush up on their English. After signing on at the Overseas Employment Agency, they are given somewhere to stay in exchange for simple housework chores. Due to their poor English, it's not long before each of them ends up in some rather compromising situations! This is classic British Sexploitation at its best!

Customer Reviews:

Gabrielle Drake.......2007-07-28

I remember seeing this at the pictures (having bunked in, because I was too young).
I thought it was very funny at the time and that Gabrielle Drake was stunning.
Well, that sort of 'Mind Your Language' come 'Adventures of ...' humour has dated beyond recollection of anything amusing.
But it was well worth the dosh just to see Gabrielle Drake in all her glory again.

1970's friendly female folly review.......2005-07-04

The Au Pair Girls is somewhat dated - but the dialogue is so bad it is entertaining. The girls show off their bodies throughout the film in the most contrived and "innocent ways". One of the Star Au Pair Girls - was played by Actress Gabrielle Drake. She played a staring role in the Gerry Anderson TV series UFO as Lt Gay Ellis. Gabrielle Drake bares all in the Au Pair Girls. It is worth a look.

Mindless, campy British sexploitation from the early 70s.......2004-08-21

Au Pair Girls is a prime example of the genre of saucy little sexploitation films that emerged out of campy British studios in the 1970s. Four foreign, nubile, young ladies come to England to better their English while serving in the households of sponsor families. Don't expect a documentary of the au pair work experience because the only thing these girls do is take off their clothes and engage in some 1970s sexual shenanigans. One of them is actually rather virginal, but that doesn't last long - not after she meets up with Ricky Strange, the most inexplicably popular pop star I've ever seen. Ol' Ricky looks like the evil, disgusting twin of John the Baptist. One girl, played by Me Me Lai (I kid you not) actually seems somewhat serious and industrious, but the unbridled geekiness of her new charge proves to be more than she can resist. Then you have a Swedish girl who couldn't outsmart a piece of paper. Oh, it's just horrible and, frankly, pathetic - although I have seen much worse than this.

I suppose all the nudity was wild and crazy back in 1972, but now it's just rather boring, and the men are just disgusting. This is the kind of movie that makes me want to get down on my knees and thank the stars above that I didn't have to come of age during the 1970s.

Ouch.... I just don't like it, but it'll be in my collection.......2003-05-13

Though I collect this movie as an eccentric genre of British 70's, I really don't like it. Looks like series of "Carry on...." british classic comedy movies. It tell you story about 4 overseas girl in London who seek for job, while studying language & culture, of course with all sexplotation. If you like british 70's, you'll like this movie. I mean you will enjoy the sound of carribean light jazzy, that make me laugh.

Description

A star-studded trilogy of romance and drama - each story presents a provocative look at life and love, molded by the creative touches of three talented directors: Norman Jewison, Peter Bogdanovich and Jonathan Kaplan. "Soir Bleu" stars Alan Arkin as Tully, a circus clown in love with the beautiful, but abused, wife of the circus manager. During the touring company's last performance, Tully finally decides to act on his love with tragic consequences. "Song of Songs" features George Segal as middle-aged baker, Ted, with Brooke Adams and Sally Kirkland as the women in his life - one is his wife and one is his mistress. In a comical twist of fate, Ted learns the difference between true romance and passion. "Language of the Heart" is set against the exquisite backdrop of the ballet world of the 1920's. A beautiful young ballerina and a talented street musician realize the fulfillment of their love and dreams through the hand of the wise Maestro (Michael Lerner).

Customer Reviews:

Paintings Inspire Stories: A Series of Short Films of Varying Quality.......2007-07-18

PICTURE WINDOWS is a 1994 Showtime television series now available on CD. The concept for the series was to focus on five well-known paintings and give five writers and directors the opportunity to enter the canvas and create a story stimulated by their response to the painting. Sometimes it works well, sometimes the connection between the painting and the story is so tangential that the stimulus is shaky, but in all this is a nice and potentially clever way to approach art.

One of the more successful of the films is 'Two Nudes Bathing', an exploration of the situation of this famous image by an anonymous artist of two women at bath, one touching the nipple of the other while maintaining eye contact with the painter. John Boorman brings the canvas to life as a history of the work: painter Henri (Charley Boorman) has been hired by a wealthy man (John Hurt) to paint his daughters and during the course of the painting Henri introduces the daughters to the concept of passion and love. Based on David Hockney's pool painting, Armed Response by Bob Rafelson begins with a young man (James Calvert) swimming in his parents (Robert Loggia and Cynthia Preston) and after an invasion by an apparent drifter (Steve Zahn), the father and son discover secrets hidden behind their artful home and the enigma posed by the Hockney painting is mimicked.

'Language of the Heart' is based on a Degas painting of ballerinas at rehearsal and the story concerns the focus of an impresario (Michael Lerner) on a particular ballerina who has fallen in love with a street musician: the manner in which each of these people fulfill their needs for love and recognition is well served by a cinematically beautiful rendering. 'Soir Bleu' by Norman Jewison deals with a sad itinerant circus love affair, 'Song of Songs' by Peter Bogdanovich is a love triangle, and 'Lightning' is by Joe Dante.

While some of the short films are a bit clumsy, the good ones are well worth watching. The problem with the CD is that not all of them come with 2 discs, so watch for that factor when buying or renting. Grady Harp, July 07

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Suspenseful, but...
Excellent movie!
Slow in parts, but I still liked it...
Rear Window
Brutally...Boring!!!!

Rear Window [Region 2]

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Like the Greenwich Village courtyard view from its titular portal, Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window is both confined and multileveled: both its story and visual perspective are dictated by its protagonist's imprisonment in his apartment, convalescing in a wheelchair, from which both he and the audience observe the lives of his neighbors. Cheerful voyeurism, as well as the behavior glimpsed among the various tenants, affords a droll comic atmosphere that gradually darkens when he sees clues to what may be a murder.

Photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is, in fact, a voyeur by trade, a professional photographer sidelined by an accident while on assignment. His immersion in the human drama (and comedy) visible from his window is a by-product of boredom, underlined by the disapproval of his girlfriend, Lisa (Grace Kelly), and a wisecracking visiting nurse (Thelma Ritter). Yet when the invalid wife of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) disappears, Jeff enlists the two women to help him to determine whether she's really left town, as Thorwald insists, or been murdered.

Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto convincingly argues that the crime at the center of this mystery is the MacGuffin--a mere pretext--in a film that's more interested in the implications of Jeff's sentinel perspective. We actually learn more about the lives of the other neighbors (given generic names by Jeff, even as he's drawn into their lives) he, and we, watch undetected than we do the putative murderer and his victim. Jeff's evident fear of intimacy and commitment with the elegant, adoring Lisa provides the other vital thread to the script, one woven not only into the couple's own relationship, but reflected and even commented upon through the various neighbors' lives.

At minimum, Hitchcock's skill at making us accomplices to Jeff's spying, coupled with an ingenious escalation of suspense as the teasingly vague evidence coalesces into ominous proof, deliver a superb thriller spiked with droll humor, right up to its nail-biting, nightmarish climax. At deeper levels, however, Rear Window plumbs issues of moral responsibility and emotional honesty, while offering further proof (were any needed) of the director's brilliance as a visual storyteller. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

Suspenseful, but..........2007-08-17

Despite some fine acting by James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Thelma Ritter, there were quite a few improbables in this story that unsuspended my suspension of my disbelief. The "characters", if you want to call them that, did things that no normal person in those circumstance would do, unless there was something wrong with the character which compelled this but which the audience was not privy to know.

I found the movie cluttered with many unrelated bits--scenes--that had neither plot nor character significance and which were just time wasters--they didn't advance the plot or suspense one mite. I found the music terrible, too jazzy and breezy for the suspense that was trying to be evoked--it did the very opposite.

Yes, there were some smart lines in the dialogue, especially Thelma's and Jimmy's, which you rarely get today. All in all the film was entertaining but hardly believable. Do not be fooled by the name Hitchcock--there are many better directors than he, director's whose work is far less contrived and manipulative--but the glamour and iconistic pizzazz of his name often blinds critics to his obvious flaws--flaws that they would and have condemned in other lesser known directors.

By the way, Vertigo is far better than this movie--I found it highly believable and recommend it.

Excellent movie!.......2007-07-29

It's Hitchcock- what else? This movie is on the slower-moving side, but it still works well. It's very craftily put together and keeps your interest. I can't wait to watch it again! I love the apartment community and layout and the main character's apartment as well as the side story of him and the woman as well.

Slow in parts, but I still liked it..........2007-07-08

This movie is interesting from the beginning, despite some slow banter between some of the characters. Jimmy Stewart's character is temporarily in a wheelchair with a broken leg, and Grace Kelly is his girlfriend. He spends a lot of time in his apartment watching the neighbors through their windows. He sees a woman dancing in her underwear throughout the film--very funny. He also sees something more sinister--a man who might've killed his wife. He tries to convince his friend, a cop or detective, to check it out, but he refuses. His girlfriend takes matters into her own hands, as does his therapist. Then he's discovered, and the man comes after him. The end is a nailbiter. I can't say whether or not this is the best Hitchcock movie, because I haven't seen many of them. But I can tell you that this is definitely worth seeing again and again. The actors and their characters are likable, and despite a few slow parts, it's a good movie that makes people think--a quality which today's movies just don't have.

Rear Window.......2007-06-26

One of the most celebrated films in history, this classic takes its time, but once the tension starts building, it doesn't stop until the heart-pounding conclusion is upon you. A new peak for Hitchcock in blending the story of a crime that may have happened with the dark side of human obsession--in this case, voyeurism. The movie marks a high point for James Stewart, who would be remembered as Hitchcock's most human and vulnerable hero. And who can resist the bewitching Grace Kelly?

Brutally...Boring!!!!.......2007-05-21

Alfred Hitchcock made approximately zero good movies in his life except maybe The Birds, which I liked a lot. But most of his movies, including and especially Rear Window are just two hours of people sitting around talking about suspenseful things. I know because they're old these movies are supposed to be so great, but you can't tell me that Rear Window is as exciting as a movie like Disturbia!!! I guess you can tell me that, but I don't plan to listen to you.

Here's what happens in Rear Window:

No, I didn't make a mistake in that paragraph. I was proving a point that nothing happens (by leaving a lot of blank space after the colon). It's a movie about Jimmy Stewart sitting in a wheelchair and watching real action happen through binoculars. Guess what, Alfred Hitchcock? Maybe it would have been a better movie if we had been watching whatever was going on in that other building and not wasted our time watching the guy who was watching all the cool stuff go down!

That would be like if Steven Spielberg decided to make E.T. a story about a scientist in a lab coat who does nothing for 2 hours and then at the end he gets to poke and prod a little alien fella for about a second. Hey, Steven Spielberg: thanks for not making that movie!!!

Anyway, Rear Window is not recommended for the young or the young at heart, but maybe for the young at brain.

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