NOTE: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
This is truly a classic film. Minsky's is the true story about how the striptease was first invented. The film is based on the book by Billy Minsky from 1960. The film is set in the lower east side of New York 1925 at Minsky's Burlesque. The star is Raymond Payne (Jason Robards), and his sidekick is played by the comedian Norman Wisdom. They find out that Minsky (Elliot Gould) is going to loose the theatre is the lease is not renewed. No one will renew the lease, not Minsky's father (Joseph Wiseman), or a Mobster played by Forest Tucker. The theatre is also having trouble with the head of the ethics committee, played by Denholm Elliot. How do they save the show? Enter a pure Amish girl named Rachel (Britt Ekland). Her goal is to dance stories from the bible, in a ballet style. The guys get an idea to build her up as the great stripper from Paris who drove all the men in France wild. Unfortunately Rachel catches on to there scheme to embarrass the head of the ethics committee, and to belittle her. She decides to go almost full Monty, but what she reveals is enough to get minsky's raided by the police.
This film is funny, smart, and full of burlesque songs and humor. It was also Burt Lahr's last film. *****
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