Hey, this is technically a film literacy movie. Relassed without the production code seal of approval, 'The Immoral Mr. Teas' inaugurated the "nudie-cuties" sub genra, a type of lightly comic film that was essentially an excuse to look at the naked bodies of beautiful women, but without any other sexul content.
The plot of 'Mr. Teas', to the extent that there is one, has the titular Mr. Teas, a mild mannered California dental appliance salesman, go about his days, encounter alot of cleavage and imagine some of the women he sees naked. That's it. The film was shot without sound, adding some music and a comic narration in post production; it is not all that dissimilar from, and likely modeled after, Jacque Tati's Monsieur Hulot films.
Shot in color this movie might be the greatest return on investment in cinema history, taking in over $1.5 million off a $24,000 budget, making at least 625 times what it cost to make. The film was made possible by a 1957 Supreme Court decision that weakend obscenity laws, the fadding power of the production code and slow and subtle changes in socitial mores. The film would spawn a host of imitators and launch the career of its director Russ Meyer. Today it plays as kind of boring. **1/2
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