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Two of France's most famous bombshells, Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot make an unbeatable comedy team (Motion Picture Herald) and set off a few bombs of their own in this rollicking, uninhibited comic romp that explodes with fun (The Film Daily)! Fast-moving and eye-catching and filled with sight gags (Cue), this hysterical film from three-time Oscar-nominated Louis Malle (My Dinner With Andre) and co-writer Jean-Claude Carri re manages to satirize everything from American Westerns to revolutions, dictators, the church, priesthood and, yes, even sex itself. Bardot plays Maria, the daughter of an Irish anarchist who is as swift with a burning fuse as she is naive in the ways of love. On the lam in Mexico circa 1910, she hides out with a touring carnival troupe, where she joins singer Maria (Moreau) in a dance hall act. When an involuntarily ripped skirt leads to the voluntary invention of the striptease, the two Marias become such a hit that wildly enthusiastic audiences...strip along with them! But the action gets even hotter when Moreau, who falls in love with a handsome revolutionary (George Hamilton), finds that she has unwittingly embroiled the two of them in an armed peasant revolt! French artist