OH! CALCUTTA! is remembered more as the first nude musical comedy revue to play Off-Broadway rather than the hapless film presentation this turkey is. The film was originally shown in theaters via a special closed-circuit television broadcast, and the resulting videotape was cleansed of
technical problems and rereleased in theaters two years later. They needn't have bothered. Though controversial for live theater, nudity in the cinema was no longer shocking or daring, thus making the film a dinosaur. Unimaginatively photographed, with a tame treatment of the show's most
controversial elements, the result plays more like a third-grader's jokes about sex rather than ...
Released:
1972
Rated:
PG
Length:
108 mins