Fifties Cheesecake Dance No. 15

PLEASE READ THIS - In this clip Anita Ekberg manages to be quite sexy, despite being a lame bellydancer. The film, Zarak (1956), is set in Afghanistan in the mid-19th century and stars Victor Mature as an Afghan outlaw named Zarak Khan, Michael Wilding as an English officer, Ekberg plays Salma, a harem beauty, and Patrick McGoohan is one of Wilding's army buddies. The film, which was shot in Morocco, was directed by Terence Young, who also directed both "Dr No" (1962) and "From Russia With Love" (1963).

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• afghanistan

[gulimochka]

she can't dance, she does not have any flexibility, it seems as if she swallowed a stick.

[pwgr2000]

I would argue that flexibility isn't the only requirement that a human needs to move the body rhythmically. Sure, the results might be more seductive but like many endeavours there is a spectrum of results from totally inept to highly competent. For my money, Ms Ekberg's performance falls somewhere in the middle, making "can't dance" way too harsh.

[andrebontemp]

this ekberg exhibition or when the grotesque reaches the sublime !!!

i wonder how this pole dance could pass the hays code that was ruling hollywood at the time it was filmed for our sake it definetly has.

one cannot say that Anita was very talented as a dancer

but she certainly is full of presence

thank again for your vid always enjoyable

jmb

[pwgr2000]

The Wikipedia article on the Hays Code says the restrictions of the code began to break down in the 1950s for several reasons. Television threatened the viability of cinemas because people could watch movies at home, so studios began to offer racier content to draw audiences back into the cinema. Anti-trust laws also began to break down the ownership of cinemas by studios which made racier foreign films available to US audiences.

Fifties Cheesecake Dance No 8 is another good example of this.

[arkbutter45]

Sir, (why am I assuming you're a dude?)

You're doing a great service to humanity by posting these delightful segments.

But why oh why can't the video quality be a little better? Then you'd certainly win a Nobel prize...

[pwgr2000]

The biggest problem is the source material for a lot of these hard-to-find films. Many of them have been transferred to DVD from old VHS copies. If I ever find the time I might repost a lot of them as HQ clips, which might make a slight difference.

[duncanedwards036]

@gulimochka I've got news for you. She was hired less for her dancing ability than her gifts for filling out that harem girl outfit. How many blonde Arabian princesses are there I wonder? I'm hardly objective but I think she's just fine. Real fine.

[Fiordiligi2]

@pwgr2000 Bless your heart. And she really doesn't do all that bad now does she?

[SinaJasmin]

WOW!!

[htrrz]

Discounting the dance, she is a beautiful woman, and the scene is about that, Anita also proves women are much more sexy the way they were shown on screen then, women today in film are always naked, but never sexy.

[NewJersey40]

@azulo65 : What could you not do these days in Afghanistan when in fact prince Harry has gone there fighting the same so called Zarak Mujahidin there when once they had been resued the prince major of British in Burma or India against Japanese invasion during world war II? I have had the first chance to watch "Zarak" film in 1984-85 on TV in the USA, and later read the book about "Zarak Khan" in university library. This martyr Zarak gave his life for UK and India, so I name my first son after hm

[Rico8458]

wow, what a cha cha cha moves

[somee44]

mORE INTERESTED THE GREAT ROLE PLAYED BY HE -MAN mATURE.

[1nizza]

Super gorgeous woman. Super sex appeal.