Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely Fantastic

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Way back in 1957, you were simply not allowed to release a movie in the U.S.A. with a title like The Naked Truth, so this film made its U.S. tour re-titled as Your Past Is Showing! Despite its first-class cast of deft farceurs like first-billed Terry-Thomas, plus Peter Sellers, Shirley Eaton (any movie with Shirley Eaton is automatically a must-see item as far as I'm concerned), Peggy Mount, Dennis Price, Wilfrid Lawson and Dora Bryan, I feel that a stronger director than Mario Zampi would have punched home the comedy with far more impact than Mr. Zampi was able to achieve. Some of the jokes are allowed to run on far too long, but fortunately enough succeed to make a viewing worthwhile – despite the fact that it all comes to a very, very lame conclusion.

This film is a delightful surprise. I did not expect to enjoy it nearly as much as I did. It is somewhat of a dark comedy, and as one who rarely laughs out loud while watching a comedy, this film had me in stitches at various times. I came away puzzled as to why I had never heard of this film before, because I found it extremely entertaining. The only negative aspect of this film was how it ended, but otherwise, dark comedies don't get much better."The Naked Truth", aka: "Your Past is Showing" is a wonderful film about a British tabloid writer who blackmails his subjects. Peter Sellers plays one of the subjects, a master of disguise who refuses to pay up. He attempts to use his skills to eliminate his nemesis, but not before making a series of blunders. He soon discovers that he is not alone, and that he can only hope to be successful in his quest by joining forces with his fellow victims.

Whether by it's original title, THE NAKED TRUTH, or the name it was given here in the States, YOUR PAST IS SHOWING, this film is almost continuously funny and sometimes downright hilarious. What a cast! Sellers is remarkable playing many different characters and shines except for one brief moment when you can see him "acting" and trying to upstage Terry-Thomas. Thomas is wonderful as are Peggy Mount and Joan Sims as her addled daughter. The beautiful Shirley Eaton shows a flair for comedy as well as looking amazing in every scene.If you want some good belly laughs give this little known British comedy a try. I don't think you will be disappointed.

This film solidified Peter Sellers' stardom as a comic actor of the first rank. He had appeared in other films prior to it, but THE LADYKILLERS was the only one prior to this that showed him to any advantage, as an inept "teddy boy" type. Here he is "Wee Sonny MacGregor" a popular young entertainer on television, whose variety show has mostly elderly viewers who think of Sonny as the son or grandson they always dreamed about. Unfortunately for Sonny, one Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) publishes "THE NAKED TRUTH", a tell all scandal sheet like "Confidential" or (despite their disclaimers) "The Enquirer". Mr Dennis has a nice, somewhat legal, offer. If you will help defray the expenses of his magazine, he will refrain from publishing details of what you don't want known. In his best, intelligent scoundrel style, Price reveals to dear "Wee Sonny" that he knows about the large amounts of rent money "Wee Sonny" has been making with some rotting tenements in London. The audience for "Wee Sonny" would not feel very comfortable with his image knowing about this.Price has similar pieces of information regarding Peggy Blount, playing an "Agatha Christie" novelist - apparently one of her plots may not have been so original. Also Terry-Thomas, as Lord Mayley, is not as respectable as he lets on - he seems to have had several affairs his wife does not know of (although Georgina Cookson - Lady Mayley - has her occasional suspicions). Soon all three are considering the last resort for dealing with blackmail - doing in the blackmailer. Their problems are more than dealing with a brainy adversary. Blount tries to commit a murder (after all she's an expert in killing as a creative writer), only to come a cropper (all I'll say is Price ups his demands for payment as a result). Terry-Thomas seems to keep stumbling into the schemes of Blount and Sellers, to his own discomfort.Best is Sellers though - he is certain he can commit the perfect murder because he is a "master of disguise". His assistant Kenneth Griffith keeps warning him that he has a tendency to overact, but "Wee Sonny" dismisses this. He tries to spy out Price playing an elderly dock expert, and only annoys the latter and makes Terry-Thomas suspicious. He flusters a gun shop owner by appearing as an Edwardian style country squire ordering enough ammunition for a regiment, not for a hunt. My favorite moment is when he tries to impress possible IRA members by speaking to them (as a fellow member) in perfect Welsh.How they finally get rid of Price and his demands is as funny as one can expect, given the rest of the film. It is a comedy that will pay handsome dividends of laughter.