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(aka "You Don't Need Pyjamas at Rosie's" or "The Beginners" or "The Beginners Three" or "Doin' It")

 

Directed by James Neilson
USA 1969

 

Three teenage buddies meet the woman of their wildest fantasies and mistakenly think she belongs to the world’s oldest profession in The First Time. Kenny, Mike and Tommy (Wes Stern, Rick Kelman and Wink Roberts) have only one thing on their minds—and it isn’t baseball! At a Canadian summer resort, they meet the stunningly beautiful Anna (Jacqueline Bisset, Bullitt, The Mephisto Waltz, Le Magnifique) and believe since she has no passport, she must be a prostitute. Under the imagined spell of her “allure,” they help her cross the border into the U.S. where the four check into a motel. But comedic mayhem ensues when the inexperienced high-schoolers are reduced to behaving like scared little boys when they realize they’re not ready to take the plunge into manhood. This charming coming-of-age classic from 1969 was directed by James Neilson (Night Passage) and co-written by Jo Heims (Play Misty for Me).

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With the coming of summer, three high school buddies--Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley--anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and sent to stay with his grandparents in Buffalo while his father, a widowed salesman, leaves on a business trip with his secretary-fiancée. Bored and alone in a strange city, Kenny writes his two friends letters about his adventures at "Rosie's," a fictitious brothel across the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. His lie quickly backfires.

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Theatrical Release: June 11th, 1969

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Distribution Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:30:06.984        
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1.85:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 22,755,990,838 bytes

Feature: 21,084,481,536 bytes

Video Bitrate: 27.93 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1607 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1607 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles English, None
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Studio: Kino

 

1.85:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

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Feature: 21,084,481,536 bytes

Video Bitrate: 27.93 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

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• Trailer (1:40)


 Blu-ray Release Date: September 5th, 2023
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Chapters 9

 

 

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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (August 2023): Kino have transferred James Neilson's The First Time to Blu-ray. It is on a single-layered disc with a supportive bitrate and it looks fine - if a bit dirty. Colors are impressive and there is minor texture. I had no complaints with the 1080P image quality - that wasn't an issue.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the original English language. The First Time has some tourism spots - Niagara Falls, Maid of the Mist and a bar with Go-Go Dancers but none of it exports extensive bass. Probably one of the higher points in the film is the score by Kenyon Hopkins (The Fugitive Kind, Downhill Racer, 12 Angry Men, The Hustler, Wild River) sounding clean, light and expressive - and there is consistent dialogue in the lossless transfer. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray offers only a trailer for the film under the alternative name "You Don't Need Pyjamas at Rosie's". There are a few other trailers included.

James Neilson's The First Time is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination. It has Jacqueline Bisset but she only surfaces in the second half. ToS fans may recognize Sharon Acker in an early scene for a 'cup of coffee'. I think The First Time was trying to capitalize on the success-wave of Mike Nichols' The Graduate - made two years earlier. The First Time lacks its realism and appears like a half-hearted production... there really is no defending The First Time beyond Bisset, who surely recognizes it as her most 'empty' movie. The Kino Blu-ray is bare-bones and is not endorsed for the quality of the film.

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