{"id":1353,"date":"2006-08-30T21:28:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T04:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2020-11-25T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T00:58:43","slug":"immoral-mr-teas-the-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Immoral Mr. Teas, The (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Sensitive men have been fretting over G-strings for years.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Poster-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Poster-1-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Poster-1-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Poster-1-91x128.jpg 91w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Poster-1-192x270.jpg 192w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Poster-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA door-to-door salesman (Bill Teas) develops the uncanny ability to see women without their clothes on.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Peeping Toms<\/li>\n<li>Russ Meyer Films<\/li>\n<li>Supernatural Powers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary notes that this one-note nudie comedy was &#8220;notorious when released&#8221;, but now seems &#8220;tame, even genteel&#8221;. Most importantly, it put director Russ Meyer on the map as the &#8220;King of the Nudies&#8221;; he went on to make much raunchier fare, including <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=45979\"><em>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill <\/em>(1965)<\/a> and <em>Vixen!<\/em> (1968). <em>TIMT<\/em> is pure male fantasy all the way, naturally, and becomes repetitive fairly quickly; fortunately, it&#8217;s only an hour-plus long, and has enough &#8220;curiosity appeal&#8221; to remain relatively amusing until the end. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Occasional moments of unexpected humor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still-1024x668.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-54768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still-128x83.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still-414x270.png 414w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/Immoral-Mr-Teas-Still.png 1403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s of mild historical interest simply for its status as &#8220;bosomania&#8221; director Russ Meyer&#8217;s first feature film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0052920\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagesjournal.com\/issue08\/reviews\/mrteas\/\">Images Journal Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sensitive men have been fretting over G-strings for years.&#8221; Synopsis: A door-to-door salesman (Bill Teas) develops the uncanny ability to see women without their clothes on. Genres: Comedy Peeping Toms Russ Meyer Films Supernatural Powers Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary notes that this one-note nudie comedy was &#8220;notorious when released&#8221;, but now seems &#8220;tame, even genteel&#8221;. Most importantly, it put director Russ Meyer on the map as the &#8220;King of the Nudies&#8221;; he went on to make much raunchier fare,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1353\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54770,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/54770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}