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5/10
A Devil Of A "Pun" Time!
Celluloid_Fiend6 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I wasn't really sure what to expect from this outing, because you never know what you are going to get when you watch one of these skin-flicks from the 60's, as the quality of them tends to run all over the place. But "My Tale Is Hot" is, if not a solid effort, at least stays on the right side of entertaining.

There's really not much to this film, as it's basically a string of burlesque-type shots of fairly attractive babes, which has a bookended plot about a super-faithful husband (played by Jack Little, under the name "Little Jack Little") being tempted by the devil (played by Max Gardens, under the name "Manny Goodtimes") to stray. That's about it.

Deeply involving this is not, but it is a good bit of fun and never really takes itself very seriously. As noted, the women are remarkably pretty attractive for the most part and have little problem peeling for the camera, while Little and Gardens provide somewhat humorous double entendre commentary during it. There's even a clever "little twist" (no pun intended) in the end, when the devil learns just why he can't tempt this most faithful husband to cheat. The dialogue is totally cornball throughout, with puns-a-plenty, some of it funny and some of it cringe-worthy.

Really, though, the film is pretty much centered on the buxom figures of the ladies, which is only to be expected. There is a nice go-go dancing scene about midway through, featuring the talents of Ms. Candy Barr which is very nice. At just under an hour long, the film doesn't tend to overstay it's welcome, even if a couple of the burlesque scenes do seem to.

In the end, it's just a fun and campy nudie-cutie romp, which is pretty indicative of this brand of film. It is certainly far from the worst effort this kind of film-making has created. If you are a fan of the genre, you might get a few chuckles of mileage out of this one.
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Fun Nudie Picture
Michael_Elliott10 January 2017
My Tale Is Hot (1964)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Strange but entertaining nudie cutie has Lucifer (Max Gardens) noticing that Ben-Hur Over (Jack Little) is a faithful man. He refuses to cheat on his wife so Lucifer pays him a visit with a wide range of beautiful women to try and make him crack.

MY TALE IS HOT was released by Something Weird Video who were of course the perfect company for this type of film. If you're looking for some hard-hitting drama that touches upon deep and haunting social issues then you'll want to stay away from this film. If you're looking for a cheap and fun way to kill a hour then this is certainly a good place to start.

I'm really not a big fan of the nudie cutie genre because outside the nudity they rarely offer anything. There aren't any plots or anything else that makes them worth viewing today but that's not really the case here. There are a lot of small little stories wrapped around the relationship between this man and Lucifer. There's a lot of back-and-forth dialogue between the two and I must admit that I thought it was quite funny. The look of Lucifer was cheap to say the least as were the sets but that just adds to the charm.

Both Gardens and Little were good in their parts and there's no question that the film offers up a large number of cute and naked ladies. MY TALE IS HOT isn't a masterpiece but it's certainly entertaining for the genre.
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2/10
There is a short version of this film out there
planktonrules23 November 2009
I recently got the DVD "Satanis/Sinthia" from Netflix--a particularly cheesy and not especially good collection of super-low budget films about the Devil. One is a documentary about the Church of Satan and the other is a sex film that I skipped--it just wasn't interesting and its theme of incest was just creepy. Well, along with these full-length films, they included a few shorts--all of dubious quality.

This particular film is NOT the same as the one reviewed by others--it is a shortened version that only used one of the stripper segments and was basically an abbreviated version. It consists of a goofy looking guy sitting down to watch the "Walt Disley Show" but instead, the Devil shows up and puts a stripper on TV. The woman is extremely buxom and wiggles amazingly, but this also goes on too long. And, in the end, the guy is mad because Satan had the nerve to preempt "Walt Disley". It's mildly funny and mildly pornographic and pretty forgettable--hence it was a extra.
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1/10
This Tale is Pun-ishing
NoDakTatum10 October 2023
This "nudie cutie" from the mid '60's is a painful film. Lucifer (Max Gardens, billed as Manny Goodtimes) is bored in Hell and decides to try and entice the world's most faithful husband with a series of beautiful topless women. Little Jack Little, looking like a cross between Buddy Hackett and Eddie Munster, is the husband Ben-Hur Ova (get it? GET IT?). What follows over the next long sixty minutes is a series of awful, sleazy puns and jokes that makes Chuck Lorre look like Noel Coward, and tons of badly edited striptease routines.

The film may have been shot in a day, with the sometimes haggard-looking women added later. Candy Barr shows up only in a piece of one-reel, having nothing to do with the credited cast. And, oh, those credits. The performers and some of the crew are given stupid pun-laden names (the director is Seymour Tokus...ha...). The film tries to be topical, mentioning "The Beverly Hillbillies," Walt Disney, and Playboy magazine, but some of the jokes are so old, and so bad, I honestly didn't "get" them. Gardens' clever asides to the camera also suck. But we are here for the women! This was shot before genitalia could be shown onscreen, so we get topless women awkwardly showing off their backsides to the camera. The ladies must have been driven in from the afternoon show at the local burlesque club, none make an impression. Poor audiences back in the day had to endure a lot of stupid jokes and humor just to see a little skin, my heart goes out to them. "My Tale is Hot" is pretty horrible, the same director would score better with "The Joys of Jezebel" a few years later.
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