[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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu