Some lovely eurostarlets in the tub. The first image features Claudie Lange as Queen Taliade from Roberto Mauri's Gli Invincibile Fratelli Maciste (1964). The nudity here is still very suggestive, the peplum, after all, was a largely kid-oriented subgenre. As is pointed out at Cool Ass Cinema, Maciste nelle Valle dei Re (1960) does contain a surprising glimpse of nudity, as a character disguised as a male slave, reveals herself to be a woman by ripping open her toga. Needless to say, this moment is missing from the US version Son of Samson, but it is, along with its original Italian release, also found in the French and Belgian versions, Maciste dans la Vallée des Pharaons and Le Géant de la Vallée des Rois.
Of course, as mentioned before, the French aren't as prudish, not even a decade earlier, as exemplified here with two images from Christian-Jaque's 1953 Lucrèce Borgia, featuring Martine Carol in the tub along with a host of decorative extras.
By the late 1960s though, even the Italian Pepla and assorted historical adventures became considerably more adult and movies like the fumetti-inspired Isabella, Duchessa dei Diavoli (1969), Zenabel (1969), or efforts like Le Calde Notti di Poppea (1969) and Poppea ... una Prostituta al Servizio dell'Impero (1972), were spiced up with various nude scenes. With these movies we are only one step away from the Decamerotic subgenre that would become so popular during the 1970s. The following image features Femi Benussi in Alfonso Brescia's 1972 version of Poppea.
The last image is from Ruggero Deodato's 1968, Fenomenal e il Tesoro di Tutankamen, in which a masked superhero tries to prevent the plundering of an Egyptian tomb. This groovy movie features the charms of the lovely Lucretia Love.
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