Film Offers Lust, Tedious Theme

By Emerson Batdorff

It is a pity that the screen has been obsessed with lesbianism at the same time as it is obsessed with what it likes to think of as frankness.

To many people, lesbianism is not awfully exciting.

To movie makers it offers

the obvious advantages of presenting two unclothed females instead of only one, which naturally is twice as good. Right?

The duller sort of person, the average run-of-thestreet citizen who is hung up on heterosexuality, finds that lesbianism on the screen is likely to grow tedi-

ous.

THE HEROINE (so to speak) of "Threesome" is not one of your usual lesbians. She is, rather, a sexual basket case. Her lusts lurch in every direction. These she sternly represses initially, causing her to do odd things.

Once in a fit of morbid enthusiasm, for example, she jumps in front of a race car going about 97 miles an hour. She just stands there. The driver makes the mistake of stopping instead of running her down.

Later she apologizes in her little-girl voice in what must be the understatement

'Threesome'

Produced ond directed by Lee Beale. Written by Kenneth Pressman. Adult audiences.

The cast Includes Judy Brown, Marionne Tholsted, Finn Sforgaard, Lotte Horn and Jorgen Kill.

of the year. "It was impulsive of me," she says.

"Threesome" is an American-Danish coproduction, American to make it more understandable in this mar-

ket and Danish to give it the cachet of straightforward lust that is so necessary in a picture of this sort.

IT DEPICTS the problems of a beautiful A'merican woman, played by Judy Brown (whoever she is) who is married to a Danish fashion designer. His atelier, peopled by beautiful women in disaray, starts the movie off in fairly rousing fashion.

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But after the leading beauty and a lot of the others turn out to be peculiar the thing settles down into the same old lesbian stuff that the movies these days like to think is life:

A lot of female hide shows and the people don't behave sedately. But the level of artistry is too low to make it particularly entertaining, even in the field to which it aspires.

There is a peculiar note at the end. "In certain scenes, it says, "Judy Brown has been depicted by a double." What are we to make of this? Morality?