The Sexplorer

1976 British film by Derek Ford

  • 19 October 1975 (1975-10-19)
(UK)
  • 18 December 1975 (1975-12-18)
(Australia)
  • 2 February 1976 (1976-02-02)
(Sweden)
  • 3 September 1976 (1976-09-03)
(Denmark)
  • October 1976 (1976-10)
(USA)
  • 4 April 1979 (1979-04-04)
(France)
  • 8 April 2007 (2007-04-08)
(USA) (Quentin Tarantino Presents: The Los Angeles Grindhouse Festival)
Running time
82 min.CountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish

The Sexplorer (US title: The Girl from Starship Venus, UK re-release title: Diary of a Space Virgin) is a 1975 British sex comedy film directed by Derek Ford and starring Monika Reingwald.[1] It was produced by Morton M. Lewis. A hardcore version of the film was also made for the foreign market.[2]

Plot

A Venusian explorer, adopting the form of a human woman, visits planet Earth to study the behaviour and customs of Earthlings. She lands in a Soho sauna, and discovers from the Soho bookshops that humans come in male and female forms. She investigates further, visiting a sex cinema, sex shops and a photographer's studio. She meets and falls in love with a young man, and with him she discovers the pleasures of sex. She decides not to return to Venus.

Cast

  • Monika Ringwald as The Explorer
  • Mark Jones as lecher
  • Andrew Grant as Allan
  • Anthony Kenyon as man in cinema
  • David Rayner as photographer
  • Beatrice Shaw as old lady
  • Michael Cronin as doctor
  • Prudence Drage as sauna attendant
  • Anna Dawson as store manageress
  • Tanya Ferova as stripper
  • Chris Gannon as store detective
  • Alan Selwyn as bookshop manager
  • Roy Scammell as ballet dancer
  • Juliet Groves as ballet dancer
  • Albin Pahernik as man in toilet

Critical reception

Monthly Film Bulletin said "The Sexplorer is meant to be funny as well as erotic, introducing an element of supposed self-parody through the person of its otherworldly sexologist and the 'bizarre' activity on which she turns a quizzical eye, whilst striving of course for the usual quota of titillation. Unfortunately, as it is totally lacking in wit or style, the selfparody acts as a banana skin on which the film slips in its first minutes, falling flat on its face and remaining quite inert for the subsequent eighty minutes."[3]

References

  1. ^ "The Sexplorer". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. ^ Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0857682796.
  3. ^ "The Sexplorer". Monthly Film Bulletin. 42 (492): 160. 1975 – via ProQuest.

External links

  • The Sexplorer at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • The Sexplorer at ReelStreets


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