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The Bellboy and the Playgirls

The Bellboy and the Playgirls

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 12, 1962

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

31%

Original Title

The Bellboy and the Playgirls

Production Companies

Defin Film, Rapid Film, Screen Rite Picture Company

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Description

The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. The 'suspicious' activities of women in the hotel give him a chance to practice his skills. Surprise! They are representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. To investigate further, he poses as a potential buyer, and the women take turns modeling their wares. The film is a re-edited version of a West German film from 1958 originally titled “Mit Eva fing die Sünde an” with roughly 15 minutes of additional footage shot by Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Hill with nudity inserted for an American release in 1962. Coppola has since said that the project was "adding five three-minute nudie sketches in color to a stupid German movie that had been shot in black-and-white"