The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) on Netflix
Mr. Teas sells dental appliances door to door on his bicycle and daydreams about the women he meets. After a dental extraction, he believes the anesthetic has left him with x-ray vision.
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Plot summary
Mr. Teas spends his days riding a bicycle from door to door, selling dental appliances. He is clumsy and shy, he watches happy couples, and he daydreams when he looks down the necklines of the women he meets; the only sex he manages is with a prostitute. An appointment for a tooth extraction changes that. The anesthetic overcomes his inhibitions and, as he sees it, gives him x-ray vision, so that every woman he passes, among them a dental nurse, a secretary and a waitress at the bar, appears to him without her clothes. His imagination goes beyond the nudity into bizarre situations.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959)
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- The Immoral Mr. Teas was the first American "above ground" movie since the pre-Code early sound era to show female nudity without the pretext of naturism, and is considered the first commercially viable American "skin flick".
- According to The Wall Street Journal, Russ Meyer's film led to over a hundred imitations being made in the next 12 months.
- A 1960 Philadelphia court case held that the film was not obscene, although the judge still described it as "vulgar, pointless and in bad taste".
- The Immoral Mr. Teas cost $24,000 to produce and eventually grossed more than $1.5 million on the independent/exploitation circuit.
- Russ Meyer's dentist let the production use his office for weekend filming, the script was made up as they went along, and the voice-over narration was added later.
- Meyer hired his friend Bill Teas for the lead and, as he put it, made the film with only "Teas, three girls and my dentist and my attorney for assistants".
- Meyer shot the film in four days, already knowing how it would begin, continue and end, and based it on his experiences doing stills for Playboy.
