Name: The Great British Striptease
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Bernard Manning, Su Pollard, Gloria Brittain

It is 27 years since I have seen this film. It was the ABC cinema in Lincoln and it was the B feature to Dawn of the Dead. Both were X-rated (you had to be 18 to be let in) I was 15 or 16 at the time. The film was a documentary of Bernard Manning comparing a striptease contest. I do not recall precisely any of Mr Manning's dialogue but I recall it was littered with profanity and I am guessing his jokes were 'politically incorrect' in the extreme! My one overriding recollection is of the huge amount of naked female flesh on display. As you can imagine this was very impressive to a young chap like myself at the time! Watching more bare ladies on screen than I had ever seen before, then followed by the thrills and chills of Dawn of the Dead; made this one of the greatest day of my life!

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