Passion Potion (1971)

A British comedy about a couple of scientists at a perfume company inadvertently create a chemical that makes women full of uncontrollable lust.

 This rating is absolutely insane.  There is zero nudity in this film (aside from a quick boob). 

 Originally released in the UK under this title.

Alan Simpson (Keith Barron) and Mike Carter (Kenneth Cope) are two scientists who develop perfumes.

Andrew Coombes (Richard Vernon)  is their boss, a stern taskmaster who constantly threatens their jobs.

 Their fragrances are put before a board of perfume testers, and each one fails - with comments that it smells like socks and such.

 With their jobs on the line, Alan and Mike must create something that passes the test.  Alan asks a co-worker, Betty (Linda Cunningham), to give it a sniff.

 A few moments pass, and she's taking her lab coat off.

 One thing that's a bit off-putting in this film is that the chemical basically makes the women into sex zombies.  It's not just that their overcome with lust, they're mind basically goes blank.

 They realize they've hit the jackpot.  The agree to hold-off on letting Coombes know about this.

 They test it out on the streets of London.

 A bunny from The Playboy Club (Jennifer Watts) chases Mike through the streets.  He ducks into a car dealership.  Perhaps the film's funniest scene: The car salesman (Bob Todd) continues to try and sell the car to Mike, even though there is this rabid bunny chasing him around.

 People gather outside the window to witness the spectacle. 

 Mike dives into the car and the bunny dives after him.

 The incident makes the papers. 

 Back at the lab, they try and recreate Compound 1442 but can't.  They keep giving their assistant, Sue (Sandra Bryant), a sniff, but it doesn't work.

 Alan tries it on a train with a beautiful passenger (Andrea Allan), but it just makes the dog horny.

 Mike sprays a bit of the compound on the tip of a roll of French bread.  It works, driving his female passenger, Jackie (Sheila Ruskin), into ecstasy.

 The problem is that the effects don't wear off quickly.  Jackie is still tearing her clothes off at her parent's house.

 Mike helps her up the stairs, her dress hiked up to her waist and in uncontrollable rapture.

 Very awkward for the parents who actually end up thanking Mike for bringing her home safe. No telling what trouble she might have got into by herself in this state.

This gets at one of the main problems with this film: the two main characters are really bad people.  First of all, both Mike and Alan are married.  Second, this is basically taking advantage of women against their will - it definitely isn't consensual.  Now, I'm no prude and am accustomed to all manner of offensive material on VZ1... but don't expect me to like these two assholes.

 Alan meets one of the Collinson twins (Mary Collinson and Martha (Madeleine Collinson).  Loved these two ladies in Twins of Evil.

 Would you believe this is the only nudity in the entire fucking movie?  Not surprising it's one of the Collinson twins.

Alan takes the girl to their bunker.  Yes, they have an out-of-the-way place, a small abandoned WWII building where they take the ladies they've put under the chemical's power.  Basically a rape house.

 When Alan returns he finds Mike with both the twins.  

 Alan gives Formula 1442 another whirl with Erika (Anna Matisse), a German woman.

 Under the influence of the chemical, Erika ends up being a bondage, S&M lover, and Alan is basically attacked in their bunker.

 While Mike and Alan are away, Coombes and Mary Cawfield (Penny Brahms) the secretary try out the formula.  They end up having sex... but again, no nudity.  Very frustrating.

 Diane Simpson (Hilary Pritchard), Alan's wife, stops by the office.  She gives the formula a sniff.

 When Alan returns, he finds his wife giving his boss a striptease.

 He tries desperately to stop her, but it's not so easy.

 This is a pretty fun scene, with Diane going buck wild and Alan trying to subdue her, busting up half the lab in the process. Actress Hilary Pritchard does a great, unrestrained performance.

 Finally, he knocks her out with chloroform.

 Later, after the smoke clears, Diane and Mike's wife, June (Philippa Gail) return and find them in a compromising position...

Isn't that funny? They've hit on the formula - and now they're making out.  (groan) THE END

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Okay, we've had a string of bad luck when it comes to sex in movies of late.  We've run into a few films lately which should, but all rights, be overflowing with T&A, but fail to have almost any nudity at all.  [See Inside Amy (1974) and Homo Eroticus (1971)]  And now we have this - a ribald story just meant to be titillating, but it doesn't even achieve Benny Hill levels of naughtiness.  This was rated X, but, minus the two-seconds of Collinson boobs, it could easily be rated G.

I mean, the secretary, their assistant Sue, both Collinson twins, the German dominatrix,... the film is brimming with hot ladies that are in a movie about a powerful aphrodisiac, yet no nudity? Unforgivable.

Okay, fine.  Let's move past this disappointment.  Was the film at least funny? No.  Worse still, the two main characters are basically cheating husbands and rapists.  The only redeeming moments come during the Playboy bunny scene, at Jackie's home, and Diane's striptease.  Those scenes are fun; the rest - skip it.

★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆