Zum Teufel mit der Unschuld (1969)
43KZum Teufel mit der Unschuld: Directed by Larry Peerce. With Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin. An intelligent graduate and working-class army veteran has an affair and clashes with a ‘nouveau riche’ young woman, who does not care about birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
“I recently saw this film again after seeing it when I was twelve (progressive Jewish parents).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI didnu0026#39;t remember much about it except that Ali MacGraw took her clothes off, that it reminded me A lot of my family at the time, and that there was a very moving scene in a library with Richard Benjamin and a small African American boy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was right on all counts — Ali looks great (her first film), it STILL reminds me of my family and when I showed it to some friends of mine (also Jewish) they all said the same about their families, and the scene in the library is just as I remembered it. I was as moved today, some 36 years later, as I was back then.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA wonderful comedy.”
