When David and Graham are on the show together, you should be on high alert for a camp catastrophe, and lord do we get it in the form of Ken Hughes’s Sextette. An innuendo-stuffed sex farce starring Mae West, it could have been a smash hit if it was made in the 1930s, when she was in her forties. Instead, it was made in the 1970s, when she was 84, and the result is the vanity project to end all vanity projects.
Join us as we discuss the star-studded cast, including a relentlessly hammy Keith Moon, an unrecognisable Alice Cooper, and Ringo Starr; discuss ways in which an OAP sex comedy could actually have worked; catalogue the film’s strange relationship to both Britain and the laws of physics; and talk about Sextette’s unbelievable musical numbers. Plus, discover the secret of Mae West’s shoes and find out how true love brought David to this highly special film. Aww.
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Episode 125: Mae West in Sextette
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