
- Year
- 1959
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 62 min
- Director
- Russ Meyer
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (41/100)
- Also known as
- Steam Heat · Mr. Teas and His Playthings
The Immoral Mr. Teas
Historically pivotal, formally inert. Watch ten minutes and read about the rest.
Russ Meyer's first film, and the one that effectively invented the nudie-cutie and cracked open American screen nudity. A delivery man gains the ability to see women naked, and the film is a plotless, sun-drenched string of pin-up tableaux with comic narration. By modern standards it is quaint to the point of inertia.
Its importance is entirely historical: it made real money, survived obscenity challenges, and proved there was a legal, profitable market for nudity, which set the whole sexploitation industry in motion. Watch a few minutes and read about the rest.
Pivotal, and close to unwatchable as entertainment now.
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