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Deep End

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London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1971-03-25

Runtime: 92 mins

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Original title: Deep End

Production Companies: Maran Film, Kettledrum-Lownes Productions

Production Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Cast

Jane Asher

John Moulder-Brown

Karl Michael Vogler

Christopher Sandford

Bathhouse Female Client #1

Diana Dors

Louise Martini

Erica Beer

Anita Lochner

Anne-Marie Kuster

Cheryl Hall

Christine Paul-Podlasky

Bathhouse Boiler Room Manager

Dieter Eppler

Bathhouse Manager

Karl Ludwig Lindt

Cinema Manager

Eduard Linkers

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Takes me back to the days when folks had to go to a bathhouse - we'd get half an hour and I'd share with my sister. Carbolic soap! Anyway, don't remember having attendants quite as easy on the eye as "Susan" (Jane Asher) and "Mike" (John Moulder-Brown). Most of the film is taken from the perspective of the latter, constantly horny, young lad who has the serious hots for his colleague. He's young and innocent and so gets his fair share of attention (and tips) from the clientele too - especially Diana Dors! "Susan" lives her life to the full, and that doesn't suit the increasingly possessive young "Mike". He starts to follow her and soon realises that she has a pretty drippy boyfriend "Mike" (Christopher Sandford) and is having a fling with his teacher (Karl Michael Vogler). Somehow he manages to get hold of a full-sized cardboard cut out of his dream girl as the latter half hour of the film descends a little too much into hormone-driven farce for me. It was rated X for the nudity, of which there is a little towards the end, but for the most part the sexual content is confined to the young man's head and JMB is quite good at imbuing his character with a degree of sexual frustration that I suspect we can all relate to. Asher, likewise, is quite effective as his manipulatrix and for an hour or so their teasing cat and mouse antics (she being the cat) are quite fun. Thereafter, though, I sort of lost interest and found it dragging. It's certainly worth a watch, but it's lost most of its oomph I'm afraid.

2024-05-25

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