The Naked Kiss (1964)

Kelly the hooker runs from her abusive pimp and eventually winds up in quaint Grantville where, after bedding the police captain, she decides to go straight. The cop wants her out of town, but can’t deny the positive effect she’s having in her new gig at the pediatric hospital. But then the town’s most eligible bachelor returns home from abroad and upsets the status quo by wooing Kelly who’s working overtime at sainthood.

This is a pretty odd movie. It’s a bad-girl-makes-good tale with an undercurrent of sordidness, some weird fantasy sequences, and some truly bizarre details like the fact that she starts off the movie bald. I just don’t know exactly why anyone wanted to tell this story.

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