This week's clip starts the beguiling Susan Stephen, who appears in a film that had a number of titles, but started out in 1954 as Golden Ivory. This clip is in B&W (I'll explain why later) and is a rather ordinary outback adventure film, where two brothers - each with their own agenda - escort a family of settlers across Kenya. This clip sees Susan and Robert Urquhart, one of the brothers, talking before Susan gives him cheek by mentioning how people who drink can do unpredictable things - obviously a reference to Robert's character's own drinking. He responds by backhanding her backside as she passes, giving a nice sound as he smacks her cheeks. And she has a mighty fine bottom on her, I can tell you! And to prove it I've added slowed down clips on the end of this video from another film she did just 2 years before this in the UK film Father's Doing Fine from 1952. In that film (which she did when she was 21), it looks remarkably as if she is wearing a thong under her tight trousers - hence why I have slowed it down for you to have better scrutiny of it.
It isn't the only thing you get to see of young Susan, I may add. Going back to Golden Ivory, it was released in colour in the USA as Outlaw Safari, but when bought up by American International Pictures in 1957 it was bizarrely cut and re-released in B&W in a double feature with Naked Africa to corner the exploitation market. The reason it was included in the exploitation sphere was because of a swimming scene that revealed a lot more of Susan Stephen than UK audiences had ever seen of her. Yet ironically it is the unedited American version (which seems to have no other naughty clips, despite it's length) that has the rather more revealing scene, as in colour you can see a damn sight more than when in B&W. This scene I've posted on burger1701's "Random TV/dvd thread", which you can find here to see for yourself:
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/sho...postcount=1101
As for Susan, she was a big star in the 1950's, with further notable films being For Better, For Worse (1954) and Carry on Nurse (1959), before marriage to director Nicolas Roeg in 1957 curtailed her career far too short in 1962. She died in 2000, aged only 68, but her perky charms and earnest breathy voice made her distinctive in her films, and made you wish that hubby Roeg had thought to cast her in some of his more 'interesting' films with her undoubted talents.