
Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters beautiful "well-developed" nude women, which of course stir his interest. The only sound in the film is the voice of a narrator and a monotonic musical theme.... (Full plot summary below)
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Mr. Teas is a door to door salesman for dentists' appliances. Everywhere he goes he encounters beautiful "well-developed" nude women, which of course stir his interest. The only sound in the film is the voice of a narrator and a monotonic musical theme.
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| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouRumsey TaylorMr. Teas is fascinating as a cultural artifact, a film that relays a culture's sexual inhibition despite the fact that it was made to challenge that very trait. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceAs the clothes evaporate, Meyer wisely sits back and appreciates the show. |
| User ReviewDavid TRuss Meyer's first film was the start of the nudie cutie boom that would follow. It's about a modern, average, common man who can't seem to take his eyes off the women he meets. Mainly because they're either wearing low cut shirts that show cleavage or they're taking their tops off right in front of him. One day he gets his teeth worked on. After the procedure is done he's suddenly given the ability to see women naked. What a gift! There isn't much dialogue except from the narrator and the music playing through out the film can either be jazzy or annoying depending on your mood. The nudity is slightly tame for the era, but somewhat revolutionary considering the types of films they had to endure that did have "nude" scenes back then. No sex, just nudity was the trend. That's pretty much what you get with this film. It's humor is quite charming and there's a fun feel to it that reminds you that you're watching something naughty. |
| User ReviewEric BGood debut effort by Russ Meyer. Ground breaking for the time, and holds up a lot better than most "nudie cutie cheesecake" films of the fifties. Starring Bill Teas (Meyer's old war buddy.) Keep an eye out for a cameo by Meyer (a little thiner and pre-moustache.) |
| User ReviewMikel KThis is the film that began, not only the career of Russ Meyers, but also made the Nudie Cuties big business. Bill Teas is kind of like a low rent version of Jacques Tati, that is if Mon Oncle was actually a peeping tom. Tame by both today's standards and where Meyer's career eventually took him. |
| User ReviewJason CWorth a watch as a historical document-- this is where Meyer officially kicked off adult entertainment as we know it-- but don't go in expecting the kind of technical polish and outrageous content as his later films. It's just a goofy industrial/educational-style film about a guy who fantasizes about looking at naked ladies. Much of the voiceover (Meyer chose color film stock over sync sound) is hilarious. |
| User ReviewWeston HMr. Teas belongs on any respectable list of cinematic lovable loosers. |
| User ReviewPrivate USlow, plodding, yet one of the first films containing unabashed nudity, and Russ Meyer's first commercially successful film. Not something to sit through and watch from end to end, although it does have some light-hearted ribald humor if you stick with it long enough. Otherwise, its a neat insight into the first, and by modern standards utterly innocent, steps toward nudity in film. Before this film, nudity was masqueraded as "educational films" about nudist camps, whereas "The Immoral Mr. Teas", while constantly placing in educational facts about sunlight and water density, does so with a tongue so firmly in its cheek, its hard not to laugh at it's absurdity, yet appreciate its honesty... especially in comparison to what would come later on in the 1960's. |
| User ReviewDustin RThe beginnings of Meyer. Very primitive but groundbreaking (in terms of censorship) at the same time. It's so innocent in its exploitation compared to today's standards. |
| User Reviewdelysid di dont want to hear the same idiotic music repeated over and over for an hour |