This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This week's theme is "Erotic Thrillers", which might be a bit tougher than it looks if you're a fan of classic movies like I am. That's because the Production Code kind of put a limit on just how erotic you could get, at least for normal definitons of erotic. If you're turned on by Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in Tugboat Annie, well, more power to you, I suppose, although I can't imagine most people considering them Hollywood's most erotic screen team. That would be Wheeler and Woolsey. In any case, I was able to come up with three selections with varying degrees of eroticism:
Spellbound (1945). More suspense than thriller, I suppose, but there's that ridiculous kiss between Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman superimposed over a shot of a long corridor of doors opening up one after the other. It's as obvious an allusion as the cutting to horses for the Robert Mitchum/Gloria Grahame kiss in Not As a Stranger. That having been said, Alfred Hitchcock did come up with a pretty good movie even if the Freudian psychology is laid on thick.
Cape Fear (1962). Gregory Peck plays an attory who was witness to a crime and whose testimony helped put the perpetrator (Robert Mitchum) in jail. Mitchum has served his sentence and is out of jail, looking for revenge. But he's going to take his own sweet time doing it, unnerving Peck and his family. There's a ton of eroticism in the climax when Mitchum cracks open an egg and pours it on the skin of Peck's wife (Polly Bergen) who is only wearing a nightgown.
Basic Instinct (1992). Yeah, you know the scene of Sharon Stone spreading her legs. She plays a writer who is one of the main suspects in a murder being investigated by Michael Douglas; the two wind up falling in love (gee, there's a surprising plot twist) as he's investigating her.
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Basic Instinct is a great pic - I totally forgot about that one.
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