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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><br>Radley Metzger</font> <font size="2"><br><i>The Dirty Girls</i>, <i>Carmen, Baby</i>, and <i>The Princess & the Call Girl</i> <br>DVD review by Gary Morris</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><i><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>T</b></font>he Dirty Girls</i> (1964) is from Radley Metzger’s early days when the idea of Europe as a center for sophisticated sexual pleasures was hitting America’s grindhouses and porn palaces. <i>Carmen, Baby</i> (1967) integrates women’s lib and counterculture motifs into its revamping of the Prosper Merimee story that provided the basis for the opera <i>Carmen.</i> With <i>The Princess and the Call Girl</i> (1983), Metzger apparently ran out of steam, or perhaps the culture tired of his combination of artfulness and softcore, because it enjoyed neither critical nor popular success and was his last directorial effort to date. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>