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Skriven 2005-03-20 03:47:02 av Erik D Larsen (1:379/45)
    Kommentar till text 149 av Dan Santoro (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Carol Cleveland photo
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From: larsen525@mindspring.com (Erik D Larsen)

In article <423A2622.4B5BB47@bellsouth.net>, Dan Santoro
<rugbydan@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I saw in another newsgroup a jpeg of what looks to be CC on stage
> topless about to embrace someone........one breast is visible.......
>
> Is this actually her?

x-no-archive: yes

The picture Dan refers to is a still, originally published in a mid-1970s issue
of "Cinema X" magazine, from C.'s lost film, "All I Want Is You...and You...and
You." The story, in a nutshell, is this.

I've been searching for this film, on and off, for the last few years.
According to director Bob Kellett, the film was withdrawn from circulation
because of a legal dispute: he hasn't kept a copy, and knows of no one who has.
Since then, it seems to have been lost. Distributed by British Tigon, it wasn't
handed over to Euro London Films in 1986, when ELF took over Tigon's back
catalog (therefore was lost sometime between 1974, when the film was produced,
and then). It's not in storage at the lab where the film was originally
processed, nor is it at any of the film archives in Britain. The production
company was a fly-by-night outfit, most likely set up to produce that film
only, and probably consisted of two fellows in a Soho walkup.

Tony Tenser, the founder of British Tigon, is still alive (and in fact working
on an as-told-to autobiography). However, he sold his interest in Tigon in
1972,  and therefore has no knowledge of the film.

I've been to the British Film Institute in London several times, to see what
could be found out about "All I Want...". During my most recent trip, last
month, I consulted with their head of research: it was his opinion that the
film had probably been "thrown in a skip" (i.e. Dumpster) somewhere.

The two books I know of on the history of British sex films ("Doing Rude
Things" by David MacGillivray, and "Keeping the British End Up" by Simon
Sheridan) make no mention of the film.

The only further possible lead I could think of, would be via one-time starlet
(and now photographer, I think) Koo Stark. Daughter of the film's producer,
Wilbur Stark, who died in 1996, she had a bit part in the film. The rights may
have reverted to her, but I think it unlikely that she'd have kept a copy.

In the halcyon, bygone days when C. and I were on friendly terms, she told me a
bit about the film. She described it as "a load of rubbish!" going on to say
that it was intended to be a sexy comedy that "wound up being neither sexy nor
funny," and that it was so bad, the actors made jokes about it while filming
was still taking place!

- Erik "Still Not the Comic Book Artist" Larsen

Undistinguished Professor of C@rological Research (Retired) Ex-Founder (etc.)
C@rol Cl*veland Appreciation & Jockstrap-Throwing Society (1997-2002)

aka And now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and commit suicide...

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