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	\| caption = UK film poster		\| caption = UK film poster
	\| director = [[w:Mario Zampi\|Mario Zampi]]		\| director = [[Mario Zampi\|Mario Zampi]]
	\| producer = Mario Zampi		\| producer = Mario Zampi
	\| writer = [[Michael Pertwee]]		\| writer = [[Michael Pertwee]]
	\| starring = {{unbulleted list\|[[Terry-Thomas]]\|[[Peter Sellers]]\|[[Peggy Mount]]\|[[Shirley Eaton]]\|[[Dennis Price]]}}		\| starring = {{unbulleted list\|[[Terry-Thomas]]\|[[Peter Sellers]]\|[[Peggy Mount]]\|[[Shirley Eaton]]\|[[Dennis Price]]}}
	\| music = [[Stanley Black]]		\| music = [[Stanley Black]]
	\| cinematography = [[w:Stanley Pavey\|Stanley Pavey]]		\| cinematography = [[Stanley Pavey\|Stanley Pavey]]
	\| editing = [[w:Bill Lewthwaite\|Bill Lewthwaite]]		\| editing = [[Bill Lewthwaite\|Bill Lewthwaite]]
	\| distributor = [[w:J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors\|J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors]]		\| distributor = [[J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors\|J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors]]
	\| released = {{film date\|df=y\|1957\|12\|3}}		\| released = {{film date\|df=y\|1957\|12\|3}}
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	\| director = [[Mario Zampi]]		\| director = [[w:Mario Zampi\|Mario Zampi]]
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	\| writer = [[Michael Pertwee]]		\| writer = [[Michael Pertwee]]
	\| starring = {{unbulleted list\|[[Terry-Thomas]]\|[[Peter Sellers]]\|[[Peggy Mount]]\|[[Shirley Eaton]]\|[[Dennis Price]]}}		\| starring = {{unbulleted list\|[[Terry-Thomas]]\|[[Peter Sellers]]\|[[Peggy Mount]]\|[[Shirley Eaton]]\|[[Dennis Price]]}}
	\| music = [[Stanley Black]]		\| music = [[Stanley Black]]
	\| cinematography = [[Stanley Pavey]]		\| cinematography = [[w:Stanley Pavey\|Stanley Pavey]]
	\| editing = [[Bill Lewthwaite]]		\| editing = [[w:Bill Lewthwaite\|Bill Lewthwaite]]
	\| distributor = [[J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors]]		\| distributor = [[w:J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors\|J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors]]
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{{Use British English|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Naked Truth
| image = The Naked Truth - UK film poster.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = UK film poster
| director = [[Mario Zampi]]
| producer = Mario Zampi
| writer = [[Michael Pertwee]]
| starring = {{unbulleted list|[[Terry-Thomas]]|[[Peter Sellers]]|[[Peggy Mount]]|[[Shirley Eaton]]|[[Dennis Price]]}}
| music = [[Stanley Black]]
| cinematography = [[Stanley Pavey]]
| editing = [[Bill Lewthwaite]]
| distributor = [[J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors]]
| released = {{film date|df=y|1957|12|3}}
| runtime = 92 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
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'''''The Naked Truth''''' is a 1957 British [[black comedy]] film starring [[Terry-Thomas]], [[Peter Sellers]] and [[Dennis Price]]. [[Peggy Mount]], [[Shirley Eaton]] and [[Joan Sims]] also appear.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b13878b|title=The Naked Truth (1957)|publisher=www.bfi.org.uk}}</ref> It was produced and directed by [[Mario Zampi]] from a screenplay by [[Michael Pertwee]]. It was released in the U.S. as ''Your Past Is Showing''.<ref name=allmovie>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-naked-truth-v34406/review|title=The Naked Truth (1957) - Mario Zampi - Review - AllMovie|website=AllMovie}}</ref>

==Plot==
Nigel Dennis is a [[blackmail]]er who threatens to publish embarrassing secrets in his magazine ''The Naked Truth''. After attempting to blackmail a famous scientist (who commits suicide), and an MP (who suffers a heart attack in parliament, and probably succumbs), his latest targets are Lord Henry Mayley, television host Sonny MacGregor, writer Flora Ransom, and model Melissa Right. Several of them decide independently that murder would be a better solution than paying. However, it is Mayley who by sheer bad luck nearly ends up the victim of both MacGregor and Ransom's schemes. The four eventually join forces and try again. That attempt also fails, but Dennis is then arrested for an earlier crime.

When Dennis threatens to reveal all at his trial, Mayley comes up with a scheme to break him out of prison and send him to South America, with the help of hundreds of his other victims. They phone in numerous fake calls for help, distracting the London police, while Mayley, MacGregor, and MacGregor's reluctant assistant Porter, disguised as policemen, whisk Dennis away.

Knocking Dennis unconscious periodically, they finally end up in the cabin of a [[blimp]] on the way to a rendezvous with an outbound ship. To their dismay, when he comes to, Dennis refuses to go along with their plan, as he in fact never wanted to reveal any of their secrets in court. He was, in fact, optimistic about the trial anyway, and reveals that the evidence was his copies of "The Naked Truth" which had been destroyed by the plotters earlier. Happy to have outsmarted his opponents again, but unaware of where he is, Dennis then steps out for some air and plummets to the ocean below. When MacGregor celebrates by shooting his pistol, it punctures the blimp, which shoots away into the distance.

==Cast==
* [[Terry-Thomas]] as Lord Henry Mayley
* [[Peter Sellers]] as Sonny MacGregor
* [[Peggy Mount]] as Flora Ransom
* [[Shirley Eaton]] as Melissa Right
* [[Dennis Price]] as Nigel Dennis
* [[Georgina Cookson]] as Lady Lucy Mayley, Henry's wife
* [[Joan Sims]] as Ethel Ransom, Flora's daughter and reluctant accomplice
* [[Miles Malleson]] as Reverend Cedric Bastable, Flora's fiancé
* [[Kenneth Griffith]] as Porter
* [[Moultrie Kelsall]] as Mactavish
* [[Bill Edwards (actor)|Bill Edwards]] as Bill Murphy, Melissa's rich Texan boyfriend
* [[Wally Patch]] as Fred - paunchy old man
* [[Henry Charles Hewitt (actor)|Henry Hewitt]] as Gunsmith
* [[John Stuart (actor)|John Stuart]] as Police Inspector
* [[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]] as Constable Johnson
* Joan Hurley as Authoress
* Peter Noble as Television Announcer
* [[Victor Rietti]] as Doctor
* [[Wilfrid Lawson (actor)|Wilfrid Lawson]] as TV Contestant
* [[Ronald Adam (actor)|Ronald Adam]] as Chemist
* [[Michael Ripper]] as Greengrocer

==Critical reception==
According to [[Allmovie]], the film is: "A prescient satire of tabloid journalists and celebrity culture, ''The Naked Truth'', is a well-acted British comedy that doesn't quite succeed in melding its black and broad comedy".<ref name=allmovie/> The ''[[Radio Times]]'' reviewer wrote: "This black comedy supplied Peter Sellers with some of his funniest, and finest, pre-Hollywood material. It's based - as the best British humour often is - on class and sex...Mario Zampi directs the gags in Michael Pertwee's satisfying script with superb timing."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/mkycr/the-naked-truth/|title=The Naked Truth – review - cast and crew, movie star rating and where to watch film on TV and online|website=Radio Times}}</ref> [[Leonard Maltin]] observed: "Sellers (cast as a television star) is a special treat in this amusing satire."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/22862/Your-Past-Is-Showing/|title=Your Past Is Showing (1958) - Overview - TCM.com|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0050749|title=The Naked Truth}}
* {{Amg movie|34406|The Naked Truth}}

{{Mario Zampi}}

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