Le plaisir des dames

Original title: The Statue

1971
12
1h 24m

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David Niven, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell, and Virna Lisi in Le plaisir des dames (1971)

A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.

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4.7/10

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Trivia
Virna Lisi had to be absent from the set until she recovered from a case of measles.

Goofs
When the fig leaf falls off the statue at 52:30, nothing is hidden behind it; it has already been sawed off.

Quotes
Alex Bolt: [In bed with his wife after a long time apart] I've been waiting to do this for a long time.
Rhonda Bolt: Then do it for a long time.

Connections
Featured in Tienes que ver esta peli: El placer de las damas (2022)

Soundtracks
SKIN Sequence
Lyrics by Audrey Nohra
Music by Luis Bacalov
Performed by Tony & The Graduates (uncredited)

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2/10

Witless farce

David Niven's career hit rock bottom when he signed on to do The Statue. For a man whose name on the screen stood for charm and sophistication what was Niven thinking when he signed for this?

Niven plays a Nobel Prize winner whose wife Virna Lisi is a sculptress and has done a larger than life statue of him. However she's given him some enhanced privates obviously inspired elsewhere and Niven spends the whole film looking for the inspiration.

David Niven has uplifted more films than any other actor by dint of his personality. But this one is just too heavy a lift. It's got all the element of a stag film without the prurient interest that would make one watch.

God only knows what Niven was thinking.