As I recall the film created quite a buzz on first release. No doubt the explicit relationship, plus the age difference, had a lot to do with audience interest. Iris (Albright) is an aging stripper who spies the landlord's handsome young son and sets about seducing him in un- subtle fashion. Teen-age Vito (Marlowe) is quite a ladies man himself, though confined to girls his own age. So, when Iris puts the moves on him, he doesn't know how to respond. Marlowe's performance gives little hint of why he shies away from the sultry Iris-- but he does, at least at first. Trouble is that the two fall in love, but she doesn't want him to know she's a stripper. So the relationship has its limits.
The story's pretty much a one-note plot, well conveyed by Albright and acceptably so by Marlowe in a difficult role. Old time TV fans, no doubt, will recognize Peter Gunn regulars Albright and Herschel Bernardi from that PI series. Not so obvious is Skip Young, the pudgy wise-cracker from the iconic Ozzie and Harriet series. (I kept expecting David and Ricky to turn up any moment.) Casting the white-bread Young here as a tenement kid amounts to real going against type. Nonetheless, the limited-budget production does a good job of portraying the confining nature of tenement neighborhoods. It almost looks like the stick-ball kids are in prison.
Anyway, the movie amounts to a Lola Albright showcase, along with a now obscure Scott Marlowe. Taken as human-interest, the movie survives pretty well. Of course, the initial novelty seems tame by today's far looser standards, but those scenes are still pretty steamy, while the performances should still hold interest.
