NAKED CAME THE STRANGER (1975)

After 18 Weeks on the Best-Seller List… Now a Major Motion Picture!

Billy and Gilly host New York’s most provocative and successful morning talk show. But their lascivious on-the-air personas are masking a far less than voracious home-sex life. Everything comes to a head when Gilly discovers that her seemingly faithful husband is carrying on with his “Love Bunny” Phyllis. At first hurt be his infidelity, Gilly quickly decides that she too ought too expand her sexual horizons and, with that in mind, begins an over-the-top game of seduction as she beds each of her and Billy’s high society friends.  

Erotic auteur Radley Metzger (Therese & Isabelle’s) second feature directed under the pseudonym “Henry Paris,” NAKED CAME THE STRANGER was itself adapted from the best selling novel of the same name, which was secretly penned by the staff of Newsday. With a cast of 70s hardcore greats, led by Darby Lloyd Rains (The Virgin & the Lover), Mary Stuart (The Passions of Carol), Levi Richards (The Intrusion), Alan Marlow (That Lady From Rio), Helen Madigan (Confessions of a Teenage Peanut Butter Freak), and Gerald Grant (Both Ways), this elegant and sophisticated comedy embodies the mid 70s “couples film” and at last comes to 4K UHD from Mélusine, newly restored from its 35mm negative, and presented in both its commonly seen hardcore version as well as its extremely rare alternate softcore cut, which includes numerous additional and extended dialogue sequences. 

directed by: Radley Metzger
starring: Darby Lloyd Rains, Levi Richards, Mary Stuart, Kevin Andre, Marc Stevens, Gerald Grant, Alan Marlow, Helen Madigan
1975 / 84 min / 1.66:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0

Additional info:

• 2-Disc Set: 4K Ultra HD + Region Free Blu-ray
• Feature length audio commentary with director Radley Metzger moderated by Ashley West of The Rialto Report
• Alternate softcore version of Naked Came The Stranger
• Original theatrical trailer
• Original radio spots
• Locations featurette
• Archival image gallery
• A liner note booklet with essay by film historian Ashley West of The Rialto Report
• Reversible cover artwork
• English SDH subtitles