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]
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| Directed by | Derek Ford |
| Produced by | Morton M. Lewis |
| Starring | Monika Ringwald Andrew Grant Mark Jones Tanya Ferova |
| Cinematography | Roy Pointer |
| Edited by | Howard Lanning |
| Music by | John Shakespeare Derek Warne |
Release dates |
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Running time | 82 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Plot edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
- ^ "The Sexplorer". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ Sheridan, Simon (2011). Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema. Titan Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0857682796.
- ^ "The Sexplorer". Monthly Film Bulletin. 42 (492): 160. 1975 – via ProQuest.
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