Süße Sechzehn – Sweet Sixteen (1977)

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Süße Sechzehn – Sweet Sixteen: Directed by Mariano Laurenti. With Lilli Carati, Gianfranco D’Angelo, Alvaro Vitali, Antonio Melidoni. Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy

“This is another goofball Italian sex comedy with a collegiate/high school setting (even though everybody here looks way to old to be in high school). It features all three of the Three Italian Stooges that appeared in lowbrow Italian comedies of that era–Alvaro Vitali, Gianfranco Du0026#39;Angelo and Lino Banfi. Vitali and Du0026#39;Angelo are very impoverished teachers who are the butt of a lot of juvenile pranks by their students, but they eventually pull a few pranks of their own. Banfi is the shop-owner father of one of the students, who in a random subplot, falls in love with a voluptuous Mafia moll at great risk to his own life.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe window dressing here (or perhaps the better word would be u0026quot;undressingu0026quot;) is provided by the above-the-title star Lili Karati. Although she had plenty of lusciousness to spare, as a comedienne Karati was a second-rate Gloria Guida (with whom she appeared in the classic Fernand DiLeo film u0026quot;To Be Twentyu0026quot;) or a third-rate Edwige Fenech (the reigning queen of these type of comedies). She is most famous for eventually becoming a hardcore porn star in the 80u0026#39;s, but in the 70u0026#39;s she was mainly known for goofball movies like this where she typically appeared in a lot more scenes than her clothes did. Here she plays a rather mature-looking schoolgirl being ardently pursued by Lino Banfiu0026#39;s handsome son (somehow the very unattractive Banfi always has a handsome son or beautiful daughter in these movies). One of Karatiu0026#39;s schoolmates (and shower room companions) meanwhile is played by Bridget Petronnio, who later appeared as the menaced virgin in u0026quot;House by the Edge of the Parku0026quot;. Petronnio is mostly known for sleazy Italian horror movies and thrillers, but she also played a lot of second banana roles to Karati or Gloria Guida in movies like this.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe generous nude scenes by Karati, Petronio and the other Italian actresses can only really carry this movie so far, however, and it is generally pretty unsuccessful as comedy. Neither Vital, Du0026#39;Angelo, or Banfi are really at their sharpest, and rather than there being any coherent conceptual comedy, the movie is mostly just a string of cheap gags and pratfalls recycled from other of these u0026quot;scholasticu0026quot; Italian sex comedies. The genre itself probably has little appeal beyond a lot of drunken Italian movie-goers of the 70u0026#39;s (and, of course, me), but even so, this is not one of the better films.”

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