A beautiful
fifteen-year-old girl, just orphaned, moves in with a doctor and his family and
soon seduces every member of the household.Running Time: 1 hr. 38 min.
Rating: R
Poor Luci, she is a 15 year old English schoolgirl about to
embark on a promising career as the high-school mattress when she comes home one
day from school to find her Mum as dead as a door knob in the tub. You see her
Mum has cut her wrists after a long unrewarding career as the town mattress.
Fortunately
for Luci, her Mum's childhood friend is now a very successful upper-middle class
doctor who has decided to take Luci home to his family (on a trial basis).
Luci's new family (The Quayles) has a few issues. The father's libedo is on the
wane and he has a stick permanently stuck up his butt. The mother was
"convent schooled" and misses the good old days of snuggling up with a
pretty young girl. The son is an amateur peeper without the libedo problem but
also with a stick up his butt. Luci arrives in the midst of all this with her
one suitcase, a bit unbalanced from her mother's recent suicide, and does
everything she can to fit in with her new family - more or less.
There isn't a whole lot of nudity or explicit sex. I've read
that the film was originally given an "X" rating but don't let that
fool you. This was 1968. Many films which would barely make an "R"
rating today got an X in those days. In any event, it was released on video in
the 1980s with an "R" rating and the copyright was abandoned in the
U.S. in the mid 1990's.
The video is "Deleted" in England. This is probably as
"uncut" a version as one is likely to find. According to IMDB it is 3
minutes longer than the theatrical release and a couple of minutes shorter than
the Brazilian release.
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