Four Dimensions of Greta * (1972, Tristan Rogers, Karen Boyes, Alan Curtis, Leena Skoog, Robin Askwith, Bill Maynard) – Classic Movie Review 10,487

Britain’s very first 3D feature film Four Dimensions of Greta features the gorgeous Miss Skoog in 3D, plus Robin Askwith, plus Riff Raff!

Director Pete Walker’s low-budget 1972 British sexploitation comedy-drama Four Dimensions of Greta stars Tristan Rogers, Karen Boyes, Alan Curtis, Leena Skoog, Robin Askwith and Bill Maynard, and features four 3D sequences, making it the first British film to use 3D.

Tristan Rogers stars as young German journalist Hans who comes to London to write an article about au-pair girls and is asked by friends to find their teenage daughter Greta (Leena Skoog). So he then interviews four people, each revealing a different  dimension of the missing girl in the film’s 3D sequences.

The frank and fairly direct tagline on the UK theatrical release poster reads: ‘A girl in your lap’.

The film is also known as The Three Dimensions of Greta, with the tagline ‘Swing with Greta in 3D’.

As expected, Robin Askwith is the film’s main bright spot as Roger Maidment, a footballer romantically involved with Greta. Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Picture Show) appears in his third film, as Degenerate, after his film debut in Carry on Cowboy (1966).

Leena Skoog (1951–1998).

The cast are Tristan Rogers as Hans Weimar, Karen Boyes as Sue, Alan Curtis as Carl Roberts, Leena Skoog as Greta Gruber, Robin Askwith as Roger Maidment, Bill Maynard as Big Danny, Kenneth Hendel as Percy, Martin Wyldeck as Schikler,  Ivor Salter as Hotel Porter, Pearl Hackney as Frau Gruber, John Clive as Phil the Greek, Nik Zaran as Johnny Maltese, Carole Allen as Mrs Marks,  Ralph Ball as Fred Sharprock, Derek Keller as Footballer, Elizabeth Bradley as Frau Schikler, Marion Grimaldi as American Woman, Godfrey Kenton as Gruber, Tom Mennard as Manchester Businessman, Erika Raffael as Karen Gruber, Max Mason as Policeman, Felicity Devonshire as Serena, Steve Emerson as Villain, Jane Cardew as Kirsten, Minah Bird as Cyn, Mike Stevens as Policeman, Richard O’Brien as Degenerate, Les Clark as Police Sergeant , Steve Patterson as Hippie, Mike Brittain as Hippie and Pete Walker as Waiter.

Robin Askwith also appeared in Pete Walker’s Cool It, Carol! (1970).

Askwith celebrated his 70th birthday on 12 October 2020.

Askwith recalled in his autobiography The Confessions of Robin Askwith (1999): ‘I had to shag the Swedish actress Leena Skoog in 3D. Every time I mounted the gorgeous Miss Skoog, the audience was told to put on their red and green 3D glasses. They had to duck for cover as either Leena’s enormous tits or my thrusting buttocks assaulted them.’

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