Review of Susan Slept Here

Restricting our overview to "dirty old men" with young chicks, there's a certain "yuk" factor that hits us in the gut when the guy is 25-years-old and the gal is, say, 12. On the other hand, a 51-year-old college biology prof getting biblical with a 25-ish grad assistant coed barely raises an eyebrow nowadays. In SUSAN SLEPT HERE, the relationship between Mark and his "Christmas gift" from the LAPD vice squad falls smack in the middle of "yuk" and "ho-hum." Mark is a 35- or 36-year-old confirmed bachelor; Susan, a 17-year-old who's never even been to a hotel before. Titillatioin overtly is the goal of the SUSAN SLEPT HERE film makers. If this movie was made a decade or two later, it's hard to guess the number of topless scenes in which Debbie Reynolds would have been chilled as "Susan." Fortunately for Ms. Reynolds, this racy flick came out in 1954, so she appears in suggestive but fully-clothed OKLAHOMA!-style pantomime dream sequences, instead.