Customer Reviews
Blackmail! - By: David Lusher, 02 Nov 2007 
An entertaining film with an excellent cast. Blackmailer Dennis Price (a wonderful performance) targets a number of celebrities including Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount & Terry-Thomas (playing a rather dishonest Lord) who alll have something to hide - Price threatens to reveal alll in a scandal magazine he produces callled "The Naked Truth". The celebrities decide to take steps...with hilarious results!
'So Many Great Performances' - By: Antony May, 27 May 2007 
I loved Terry Thomas, almost anything that he was in I found funny. That said, this film stands out from a lot of his others in the respect that not only is Terry superb in his usual role but so many others also give their very best performances here to. The story revoles around a magazine callled 'The Naked Truth' that specialises in publishing celebrities/well known peoples darkest secrets. The editor of the magazine makes most of his money however out of blackmailing those that are prepared to pay to prevent him from publishing. The scene where Terry's character is at first revelling in looking at a copy of the magazine before he realises that he is about to be the next to be blackmailed is incrediby funny! Peggy Mount, & Peter Sellers are also exceptionallly good in this film & the antics & scenario's they alll get involved in together here are sublimely farcical to the point of hysteria! Trust me, if you love old fashioned British Comedy you will love this!
Flawed reproduction mars classic - By: , 08 Jun 2003 
This is a fantastic film & I was looking forward to watching it in DVD quality but I was to be disappointed--twice so far.
This is the second DVD of this film that I have purchased from 'Borders' & this is the second version which has been spoilt. Where there is a dark background in the film with a character in darkness--eg. Terry Thomas as he makes his way across the gangplank of the barge--the foreground information blurs & melts & mars the image. This is not what DVD is about. I have taken one version back & I've just looked at the new one--exactly the same. Anyone else noticed this. Until they fix it don't buy.
A brilliant classic comedy - By: , 15 Jun 2002 This is a brilliant film. Joan Sims portrayal of a panic stricken daughter is one of her best roles. The film is very funny & with stars such as Terry Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Dennis Price & Joan Sims, it is a laugh a minute. The story is about celebrities who are being blackmailed. The ending is a classic. It is a must to watch if you have never seen it before & if you have seen it before, it is a treasure to watch again & again.
Overlooked and underrated masterpiece - By: , 02 Jun 2002 Peter Sellers as Wee Sonny McGregor has to be one of the funniest & most venal characters in British films of the Ealing Period, one of his cleverest performances, switching from slapstick goonery to snide villainy in a display of his complete mastery of the craft of comedy.
In fact The Naked Truth is packed with the greatest British comedy actors playing ensemble farce to perfection. You may remember it & have hazy recollections of "Gallloping Alopaecia", "Looking For A MIckey Finn" & a heavily disguised Sellers attempting to buy some explosives in an Irish pub ("Ooh my nose"). The plot is uneven, the premise far fetched - but only as much as the average Fawlty Towers. Honourable mention to Terry-Thomas, so adept at seemingly playing "himself" that his subtle artistry as an actor has long been overlooked. Peggy Mount is completely absorbing, the timing of her double act with Joan Sims a master class in character dynamics. The whole piece underpinned by the clever premise that none of the characters is particularly wholesome but none so wonderfully wicked as the suave & ever resourceful Dennis Price, who blackmails them with the threat of exposing their darkest secrets in his scandal magazine, "The Naked Truth" (a sort of LA Confidential but in a 50s British showbiz setting).
Buy the DVD, it's a classic, & you can replay the last five seconds of the Irish pub scene over & over without wearing out a VHS cassette!
