Softcore sinema auteur Radley Metzger (no relation) turned out high budget, high class. visually luscious European art-house smut via his Audubon Films company in the 60s and 70s. He’s famous for such highbrow sex fare as Camille 2000, Carmen Baby and The Lickerish Quartet (which I wrote about here)

Metzger’s 1972 film Score was sourced from an off-Broadway play that spoofed swingers and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, set in Queens, NY, but the locale was changed to a mythical European country for the film adaptation (Sylvester Stallone had a small role in the play, but not the film. He wasn’t “European” enough). Score is the first film with any kind of a decent budget to explore onscreen male bisexuality. A lascivious pair of swingers makes a bet about seducing a naive couple. Hilariously forward Claire Wilbur (who was apparently ashamed of being known for the role) and Gerald Grant portrayed the jaded seducers. Cult film favorite Lynn Lowry (The Crazies, Shivers, I Drink Your Blood) and gay porn icon Casey Donovan (here called Calvin Culver) played their prey.

At one point, one of the characters says of her husband, “I like everyone here except him because he won’t take his pants off.”  Do check out the clip, it’s one of the best trailers I’ve ever seen. You won’t wonder what the film is about, that’s for sure…

A new HD version of Score has just been issued on Blu-ray and DVD by the Cult Epics label. An uncensored version including full-frontal male nudity and fellatio is also available.
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Radley Metzger’s Erotic Masterpiece: The Lickerish Quartet