I somehow missed the original query, so please forgive me if I'm asking 

questions you've

answered.   



Are you looking for explicitness in the invitation, per se?   Or just in the 

acknowledgment of

the act, or anticipation of the act?   And are you limiting this query to 

American films?   I'm

thinking of David Lean's Brief Encounter from 1945.   As proper as a drama 

about adultery

can be, if you ignore the unexploited train and station setting, they do 

arrange a consummation.



Also, I can't conjure any of the dialogue at the moment, but there's Two for 

the SeeSaw 

(1962), but it's straight midwest (Robert Mitchum) meets hippie Village 

(Shirley Maclaine), 

and there's hardly room for misunderstanding.    And the dance of wolf and 

worldly-but-wary 

prey in the Doris Day/Rock Hudson films camps up the allusions, but they're 

all there.   



Frank, Michael wrote:

> [with the usual apologies for duplication]

>

> 

>

> in 1958 [north by northwest] eva marie saint says to cary grant

> something like "i have no plans for tonight and my book isn't very

> interesting" -- and we know she's inviting him to her bed . . . in 1971

> [play misty for me] jessica walter says to clint eastwood "right, no

> strings attached, but that doesn't mean we can't sleep together tonight

> if we want to" . . . while this may fall short of the "let's screw"

> which one might expect today, the increased explicitness clearly

> reflects the changes [in both sexual mores and codes of representation]

> that are a function of what have since come to call the sexual

> revolution of the sixties 

>

> 

>

> it would be interesting to trace these changes, which leads to the

> question:  can anyone cite earlier examples in mainstream cinema [i.e.

> films aimed at a mass audience] of this kind of sexual explicitness - or

> of later developments that raised the bar even higher [or lower,

> depending on your POV] . . .

>

> 

>

> thoughts??

>

> 

>

> mike

>

>

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