Not one of your better 70's Italian sex comedies
25 October 2013
This is another goofball Italian sex comedy with a collegiate/high school setting (even though everybody here looks way to old to be in high school). It features all three of the Three Italian Stooges that appeared in lowbrow Italian comedies of that era--Alvaro Vitali, Gianfranco D'Angelo and Lino Banfi. Vitali and D'Angelo are very impoverished teachers who are the butt of a lot of juvenile pranks by their students, but they eventually pull a few pranks of their own. Banfi is the shop-owner father of one of the students, who in a random subplot, falls in love with a voluptuous Mafia moll at great risk to his own life.

The window dressing here (or perhaps the better word would be "undressing") is provided by the above-the-title star Lili Karati. Although she had plenty of lusciousness to spare, as a comedienne Karati was a second-rate Gloria Guida (with whom she appeared in the classic Fernand DiLeo film "To Be Twenty") or a third-rate Edwige Fenech (the reigning queen of these type of comedies). She is most famous for eventually becoming a hardcore porn star in the 80's, but in the 70's she was mainly known for goofball movies like this where she typically appeared in a lot more scenes than her clothes did. Here she plays a rather mature-looking schoolgirl being ardently pursued by Lino Banfi's handsome son (somehow the very unattractive Banfi always has a handsome son or beautiful daughter in these movies). One of Karati's schoolmates (and shower room companions) meanwhile is played by Bridget Petronnio, who later appeared as the menaced virgin in "House by the Edge of the Park". Petronnio is mostly known for sleazy Italian horror movies and thrillers, but she also played a lot of second banana roles to Karati or Gloria Guida in movies like this.

The generous nude scenes by Karati, Petronio and the other Italian actresses can only really carry this movie so far, however, and it is generally pretty unsuccessful as comedy. Neither Vital, D'Angelo, or Banfi are really at their sharpest, and rather than there being any coherent conceptual comedy, the movie is mostly just a string of cheap gags and pratfalls recycled from other of these "scholastic" Italian sex comedies. The genre itself probably has little appeal beyond a lot of drunken Italian movie-goers of the 70's (and, of course, me), but even so, this is not one of the better films.
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