Telephone sex

 The telephone has always featured heavily in movies. But as a sex aid? Well, you might be sceptical. But hold  on, let me show you...

The NFT in London is currently screening a season of Ingrid Bergman films.

I went to see her in this...

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 cracker Notorious. Along with  Bergman is the immaculate Cary Grant. 

It is a wonderful experience to sit among an attentive audience who appreciate film as an art form, following every frame with the keenness of a philatelist. And with the added beauty of a scratch free print, projected at the very intimate Academy screen ratio, is a real pleasure

Early on in the film there is a highly erotic telephone scene between Bergman and the Grant – you can see the scene here by spooling forward to 5:06. It reminded me of an equally highly charged scene from It’s a wonderful Life...

 – see the scene here by spooling forward to 0:58. Compare the two.

In an age where everything and anything goes up on our cinema screens, it is fascinating to see just how sexual two fully clothed people can be, with the aid of a telephone.  And here is the lovely Donna Reed who starts with Jimmy Stewart in that good old seasonal stalwart.