The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (4 Stars)

This is a curious film made in 1969 under the supervision of soft porn pioneer Harry Novak. It shows an erotic version of Shakespeare's play being performed in front of a drunken bawdy audience in the early 17th Century. It uses many original lines from the play, but changes are made in order to integrate additional sex scenes. Throughout the play there are comic interjections in the style of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". It's uncertain whether the interjections are by the 17th Century actors or by the 20th Century actors playing them. That's one of the problems of multi-level films.

The downside of this film is that the humour simply isn't funny. The upside is that it is amazingly erotic for such an old film. The women in the film look much more "perfect" than nudes in any other films I know from the 1960's.