The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Mario Zampi made at least two gray rather than 'black' comedies, both featuring fine ensemble casts; first came Laughter In Paradise and then, a few years later, The Naked Truth, and both of them hold up rather well. In the former the cast were linked by an eccentric Will which called for each beneficiary to fulfil a bizarre request in order to qualify for a share in the will whilst here the characters are linked because they are all victims of attempted blackmail at the hands of Dennis Price, owner, editor and publisher of a 'scandal sheet' The Naked Truth, who notifies each victim of the skeletons in their respective closets and offers them the Hobson's Choice 'pay in a fortnight or I publish in a month'. Inevitably the victims, after failing individually to see off Price, join together to get rid of him which results in a neat ending. Still capable of offering divertissment some seventy years later.

The Naked Truth is a funny and wicked satire of the tabloid-press industry and celebrity culture. The story follows four celebrities Sonny MacGregor {Peter Sellers}, Lord Mayley {Terry-Thomas}, Melissa Right {Shirley Eaton} and Flora Ransom {Peggy Mount}. Each of them being blackmailed by unscrupulous magazine reporter Nigel Dennis {Dennis Price}. Who if his demands aren't met will publish damning stories that will kill of the respective careers off the celebrities.Cue a unified target of the four, one thing in common, to kill the oblivious Dennis. This is wonderfully set up for a number of excellent, and well constructed attempts at assassinating the bounder and cad reporter. But naturally, not all is going to go to plan, with the assassins being their own worst enemy at times. As can be expected with this cast list {Joan Sims also appears} it's acted with no little comic gravitas and the direction from Mario Zampi is smooth and at ease with the material. A tidy enough British comedy, that's even black at times, even if it fails to truly reach the great heights that its cast list suggests it should. 6/10

"The Naked Truth" (a.k.a. "Your Past Is Showing") is a good example of the dividing line between bad and awful. While never quite unpleasant, it is also a comedy that isn't funny, a caper film that isn't clever, and a showcase for talents who never manage to rise off the ground, even if they don't fall flat on their face.Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is a journalist with a special calling. He self-publishes a magazine called "The Naked Truth" revealing the seamy underbelly of celebrity life in pre-Swinging, still-naughty London. He makes a special offer to those he gets the dirt on, like TV personality Wee Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers): Come across with a sizable donation to a charity called the Distressed Journalists' Association (sole beneficiary: Dennis himself) and we won't tell England the sordid details of your private lives."But I haven't got 10,000 pounds," protests MacGregor."Spoken like a true Scot," Dennis replies. "But where has the bonnie accent gone?"The presence of Price immediately reminds one of the classic Ealing comedy "Kind Hearts And Coronets," which Price starred in to great effect. Though given the same kind of weaselly character to play, lashing out against the upper classes, he's not nearly as good here. In part that's because Price here is more detached and harder to pull for, but mostly because "The Naked Truth" doesn't have the craft of "Kind Hearts" when it comes for making the audience care about its array of base characters.What makes "Naked Truth" more of a failure is the presence of Sellers, just gaining his chops in screen comedy and a year or so away from launching one of the most fertile five-year periods any screen actor ever had. He's not bad here, just a wasted opportunity. MacGregor dons an assortment of disguises trying to gain the upper hand on Dennis, the first of many such multiple role-plays for Sellers, but the laughs are few and faint.That's a problem throughout the movie, actually. Michael Pertwee's script is full of double takes and misheard words but few laughs, especially as it starts things off with a suicide and a suicide attempt. Director Mario Zampi has a hard time shooting day-for-night scenes and lets Peggy Mount play to the cheap seats in an overly broad performance as a mystery novelist. Poor Joan Sims as her daughter overacts even worse, reminding one of how comedy is a business of degrees. Zampi does shoot some arresting floor-level shots now and then, but he doesn't do much for his cast from Price on down.What's good about "The Naked Truth"? Terry-Thomas, in what amounts to a nominal lead performance as another of Dennis's blackmail victims, louche Lord Mayley, inhabits his character with his usual playful verve. Like tom-darwin noted here in an earlier review, T-T was a bit of a one-note Johnny but played his one note well. He does so here especially in exchanges with Price and Sellers and with Georgina Cookson as Lady Mayley, about as amiable a henpecker as you'll find on screen. The score by Stanley Black is busy but game. You wish you were having as good a time as he is here."The Naked Truth" is neither funny nor witty, but there are moments of engagement here or there. Mostly though, it's a chance to appreciate that British comedy wasn't always so golden even in its "Golden Age."

Apparently released both as "The Naked Truth" and "Your Past Is Showing" (the name on the title card and title I remember in the U.S. run), this bustling little comedy about tabloid blackmailer is still jolly good fun going on 50 years later. Credit an amusing script and some fine casting that captures a gaggle of top-flight '50s British comedy talent in top form. Terry-Thomas and a young Peter Sellers (filmed here just before he gained fame with "The Mouse That Roared") are at the pinnacle of their Brit-comedy game and are ably abetted by the redoubtable Peggy Mount, luscious Shirley Eaton (a few years before her turn as the "golden girl" in "Goldfinger"), a caddish Dennis Price (as the oily blackmailer) and assorted classic British comedy stars, a number of whom seem to have had recurring bits in the "Carry On" series. The humor here is not as low and juicy as the "Carry On"s or as high and dry as the classic Ealing Studio Ealing comedies of the period - a pleasing mix. By contemporary standards, the film is a little slow - especially the set-up through the opening reels - but it all pays off very nicely with an avalanche of chuckles and a few great belly laughs. Keep a close eye on Sellers: although he plays a single character (a cheesy TV variety show emcee), he dons multiple disguises through the film, warming up for future roles in "Mouse" and "Dr. Strangelove" (where he played three parts in each) and those later "Pink Panther" comedies.