Word: sexpots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gear and brave enough to make like a space comic hero in an asbestos suit along the hot galleries of the shelter. The tycoon's blonde daughter. The tycoon's colored butler-old-fashioned enough to do a bit of praying. The butler's honey-colored sexpot daughter. The Japanese gardener's son. A dreamy Hawaiian-Chinese girl. An Italian-American gangster-gigolo type with a switch knife. A gas-meter reader. An Ivy League dope engaged to the tycoon's daughter...
...other excellent pictures (Elmer Gantry, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and some that are at least artistically ambitious (Shadows, The Savage Eye). But these are the exceptions. At the other end of the scale are such lurid Z pictures as Albert Zugsmith's The Beat Generation, and Sexpot Goes to College. The point is that these are no longer drastically different from many quality productions...
Back in England, Ellis toyed with the idea of entering the Anglican ministry, but lost his faith and then decided to become a physician, which he eventually did. He became absorbed in a cult, the Hinton circle. Its late founder, James Hinton, had been a blend of crackpot and sexpot. Under the doctrine of "service," Hinton preached polygamy and practiced promiscuity among lonely women and errant wives. High-minded Havelock saw in this only a band of free spirits snapping the moral chains of Victorian bondage. He adopted the Hinton motto, Fay ce que vouldras (Do What Thou Wilt...