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Second Time Lucky

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VHS 308
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Second Time Lucky (1984)

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What would have happened to love and sex if Adam hadn't taken the bite?

In this tongue-and-cheek comedy, the Devil and God get together and the horned one bets God that were Adam and Eve to get a second go of it, the same result would occur. To prove his point, the film swings back to Roman times, through WW I, the Roaring '20s and more, as temptation prevails throughout the annals of time.

The New Zealand/Australia production by director Michael Anderson was actually an unfunny comedy. It was advertised as "A Devilishly Funny and Sexy Comedy" and the story of how "two teenagers go back in time."

Cute, curly-haired and petite star Diane Franklin displayed ample nudity - she was equally nude in the teen drama The Last American Virgin (1982) and later appeared as the French student love interest of John Cusack in Better Off Dead (1985).

The sexy comedy began with a "double-or-nothing" bet between white-garbed God (Robert Morley) and a fiery, drag-queen-like Devil (Robert Helpmann). They decided to replay the Adam and Eve story in the Garden of Eden - to see whether Eve (and Adam) would take a bite from the apple (re-enacting man's fall from grace through seduction a second time). The Devil wagered that temptation would still plague mankind. The first two people also had modern-day human counterparts:


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