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Lady Libertine
5.4
/10
38 Ratings

Synopsis

In the 1880s, a rich nobleman from London, Charles, meets “Frank”, an adolescent, and offers hospitality to the young orphan. Charles is surprised when he discovers that Frank is not a boy as he believed, but a beautiful young girl named Frances with a dark secret.

Our take

The Playboy Channel teamed up with genre producer Harry Alan Towers and director Gérard Kikoïne for this cornucopia of cross-dressing naughtiness. A soft-core adaptation of Bill Adler’s Victorian story that ignited controversy when actor Sophie Favier unsuccessfully sued to stop its re-release.