leering, loaded narration, read by actor Edmond Purdom, and the former's obviously staged direction will prove thoroughly unconvincing to sophisticated viewers. In patently titillating manner and for no discernible purpose it "depicts" the evils of permissiveness in Sweden: sex education, leading directly to wild immorality, with contraceptives available by vending machine; a gang rape by Swedish Hell's Angels types ("raped in the dirt by two, or three, or five of the pack"); exploration of adoption problems (an excuse for a childbirth scene); TV interviews with teen age girls who reflect on their first sexual experiences at age six and up; teenagers who make out freely in front of helpless parents; Swedish women's preference for Negro males ("more primitive, more to the point"); wife-swapping clubs; lesbianism; pornography; rampant alcoholism, with derelicts eating shoe polish for its alcohol; the obligatory drug sequence; and plenty of nudity.

Effusively condemning "the paganism of physical life," the narration hysterically mentions "suicide" at every opportunity, as if to show the wages of sin. The one substantial topic it touches briefly upon is an underground atomic shelter where children are being prepared for the inevitable post-nuclear war world, which chillingly recalls the nearly similar situation in Joseph Losey's These Are the Damned. Piero Umiliani's score sounds at odd moments like "What Kind of Fool Am I."

Avco Embassy.

Eastman Color.

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