22.8.09

tiffany jones (1973)

aka Tales of Tiffany Jones.
Tiffany (Anouska Hempel) is a model, in swinging London, who gets involved in an attempted coup d'etat against a foreign dictator, whilst he is in London on a trade mission. The dictator takes a fancy to Tiffany after seeing her in a newspaper, and tries to get to know her, which basically involves her shedding her clothes at any given moment.

This is a loose adaptation of a British newspaper comic strip about the daily life of a fashion model. Obviously this was deemed not interesting enough for a film so they added a spy twist. They then produced a cheap and not so cheerful film, which like most British sex comedies of the period promises more than it delivers; pitifully little sex, and definitely no comedy. Hempel, now a famous hotelier and designer, reputedly bought the rights to this film to prevent it ever been shown again. I don't know what she's worried about, not many would want to sit through this anyway!

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