''Go Naked in the World'' is a 1961 American drama film written and directed by
Ranald MacDougall
Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as '' Mildred Pierce'' (1945), '' The Unsuspected'' (1947), ''June Bride'' (1948), and '' The Naked Jungle'' (1954), and shared screenw ...
and co-directed by an uncredited
Charles Walters
Charles Powell Walters (November 17, 1911 – August 13, 1982) was an American Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Early years
Charles Walters was born in Pasad ...
and produced by
Aaron Rosenberg
Aaron "Rosy" Rosenberg (August 26, 1912 – September 1, 1979) was a two-time " All-American" college football player, and a film and television producer with more than 60 credits.Robert Slater (2000)''Great Jews in Sports''/ref> He received a ...
. The film stars
Gina Lollobrigida
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. As o ...
,
Anthony Franciosa
Anthony George Franciosa (né Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of t ...
, and
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular perfor ...
. It is based on a 1959 novel of the same name by
Tom T. Chamales.
Plot
Nick Stratton (
Anthony Franciosa
Anthony George Franciosa (né Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of t ...
) is attempting to find his own way in the world after returning home to San Francisco following a stint in the Army. His father Pete (
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular perfor ...
) is a self-made millionaire and important in the Greek immigrant community. Pete loves his son, but he tries to buy his love and dominate his life like he does his employees and business associates. Nick struggles to assert his own identity, but family pressure and his love for his father are very strong. Pete wants Nick to marry a nice Greek girl, the daughter of a business associate. Nick and Giulietta Cameron (
Gina Lollobrigida
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. As o ...
), however, have already fallen deeply in love, though she is strangely reluctant to continue seeing Nick. He takes her as his date to his parents' wedding anniversary. Pete tells him in no uncertain terms that Giulietta is a
prostitute
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, non-penet ...
, whose services Pete and many of his friends, who are present at the party, have purchased.
Nick tries to give Giulietta up, but they are madly in love. Everywhere they go, they keep meeting her former clients. Giulietta does everything she can to drive him away, telling him he is just another "John" who now bores her, but she is lying to try to spare him pain. She is devastated when she succeeds. When she sees him in a bar where she has gone with a former client, she deliberately flirts outrageously with every man in the place. Nick gets into a fight dragging men off her and is arrested.
In anguish, Giulietta steals a simple, white dress hanging from a clothesline, hanging her boa scarf in its place. She goes home, puts on the dress and jumps over the balcony to her death in the sea far below.
Nick enters the apartment and looks for Giulietta. He hears a commotion and spots a body face down in the water. Shocked fishermen pull Giulietta from the water and lay her on the beach. Nick runs through the crowd and embraces her briefly, but the police pull him off as a blanket is laid over her face. Seeing his father, a distraught Nick tells him that Giulietta should have known he would go back for her.
Cast
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Gina Lollobrigida
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (born 4 July 1927) is an Italian actress, photojournalist, and politician. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. As o ...
as Giulietta Cameron
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Anthony Franciosa
Anthony George Franciosa (né Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of t ...
as Nick Stratton
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Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (; born Ermes Effron Borgnino; January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012) was an American actor whose career spanned over six decades. He was noted for his gruff but relaxed voice and gap-toothed Cheshire Cat grin. A popular perfor ...
as Pete Stratton
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Luana Patten
Luana Patten (July 6, 1938 – May 1, 1996) was an American actress who appeared in films produced by Walt Disney Pictures, such as ''Song of the South'' (1946), ''Fun and Fancy Free'' (1947), and ''Melody Time'' (1948). Later in life, she pla ...
as Yvonne Stratton
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Will Kuluva
Will Kuluva (May 2, 1917 – November 6, 1990) was an American actor. He appeared in the films '' Abandoned'', ''Viva Zapata!'', '' Operation Manhunt'', '' The Shrike'', ''Crime in the Streets'', ''Odds Against Tomorrow'', ''Go Naked in the World ...
as Argus Dlavolos
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Philip Ober
Philip Nott Ober (March 23, 1902 – September 13, 1982) was an American screen and stage actor. He later retired from acting to work as a diplomat.
Ober is best remembered for his roles in the films ''From Here to Eternity'' (1953) and ''North ...
as Josh Kebner
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John Kellogg as Cobby, Hotel Detective
* Nancy R. Pollock as Mary Stratton
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Tracey Roberts as Diana
Reception
Upon its release,
Bosley Crowther
Francis Bosley Crowther Jr. (July 13, 1905 – March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, writer, and film critic for ''The New York Times'' for 27 years. His work helped shape the careers of many actors, directors and screenwriters, though his ...
gave the film a scathing review: "Here is a film that its producer — not the censor, not anybody else; just its producer — should have taken out and burned." ''
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
'' likewise gave a scathing review, which read, "There is nothing to write about this inept film, which
€¦has Gina Lollobrigida as its main performer. We can regret that this actress has thus lost, under the makeup and tics of Hollywood, her personality to the point of resembling any star in an illustrated magazine. Only commercial reasons could have drawn her into this enterprise, the foolishness of which is matched only by its vulgarity."
According to MGM records, the film recorded a loss of $1,462,000.
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See also
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List of American films of 1961
References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Go Naked In The World
1961 films
1961 romantic drama films
American romantic drama films
Films scored by Adolph Deutsch
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Ranald MacDougall
Films directed by Charles Walters
Films set in Mexico
Films set in San Francisco
Films with screenplays by Ranald MacDougall
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
CinemaScope films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films