Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Hosted by some unnamed escapee from a twelve-step program, Man and Wife, moves from anatomy charts and Asian erotic art into actual footage of two couples demonstrating nearly fifty different sexual positions.
A 1969 sex-education hybrid that blends documentary framing with explicit demonstration footage, it holds modest novelty for its era as an early mainstream attempt to package sexual instruction for married adults with a clinical veneer. The 'plot' is essentially a loose hosting structure around anatomical charts and position demonstrations — functional but thin. Acting is minimal and largely irrelevant given the documentary format. Cinematography is utilitarian at best. The ending offers no meaningful resolution or narrative payoff, simply stopping once the content is exhausted. Its historical curiosity as a transitional artifact between stag film and legitimate sex-ed gives it a slight distinctiveness edge, but overall this is a very low-quality production by most cinematic measures.