Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)

Timing: 1:28 (88 min)

6.5/10
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Release date

1972-08-06

Country

United States

Production

United Artists

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$2 000 000

Revenue

$18 016 290

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Director

Woody Allen

Actors

Woody Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser, Anthony Quayle, Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, Jack Barry
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Scenario

Producer

Charles H. Joffe, Jack Rollins, Jack Brodsky

Operator

David M. Walsh

Composer

Artist

Audition

Marvin Paige

Editing

Eric Albertson
All team (38)

• The third episode of the film “Why Some Women Don’t Have Orgasms?” is a reference to Italian cinema in general and, in particular, to the works of Federico Fellini (1920-1993) and Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007), as well as to the films “Casanova 70” (Mario Monicelli, 1965) and “Red Desert” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964). In 1980, Woody Allen would film “Stardust Memories,” which parodies Fellini’s tragicomedy “8½” (1983).
• Woody Allen’s first film with a substantial budget.
• The film consists of 7 episodes, and the title of each is taken from chapters of the eponymous book (1972) by David Reuben. The chapter titles of Reuben's book and fragments of Allen's film are in the form of questions.
• Allen offered the roles of Fabrizio and Gina, the characters in the episode “Why Some Women Don’t Experience Orgasm?”, to Richard Benjamin with Paula Prentiss and John Cassavetes with Raquel Welch. In the end, Woody Allen played Fabrizio himself, and his ex-wife Louise Lasser played Gina.
• Inside a giant silicone breast sat a person who moved on command.