The Harrad Experiment

It's more or less tailored to the suburban set who don't feel up to Last Tango in Paris.

Based on lame book about sexual experimentation, the movie fares about as well.

**_Love American Style, the college years, albeit with nudity_** A new college in the Los Angeles area is run by two professors (James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren) interested in experimenting with coed living conditions, intentionally placing males and females together who happen to be opposites. The story focuses on two couples: studly Stanley (Don Johnson) and shy Sheila (Laurie Walters), as well as conservative Harry (Bruno Kirby) and liberal Beth (Victoria Thompson). Based on the 1966 tome for sexual awareness and responsibility, “The Harrad Experiment” (1973) is a drama/romance with a lighthearted score by Artie Butler and a couple of songs on the soundtrack written by Charles Fox, who’s known for the music on Love American Style. (The other two songs on the soundtrack were sung by none-other-than Don Johnson). So, while this isn’t a comedy, it’s not deadly serious either. It’s a relatively fun soap opera with a college milieu and cringe-inducing situations/ dialogues. Look no further than the eye-rolling nude yoga sequence. It’s like Woodstock on campus. The name for the college, by the way, is a conjunction of Harvard, which was a predominantly male school at the time, and Radcliffe, a women's university; hence, Har-rad. With the counterculture revolution of the 60s, nudity became the hip thang, which explains the skinny-dipping sequence in “Woodstock” and, a year lat…

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