Helen high water

I know, I know; it appears that SCR is devolving—some would call it evolving, actually—into a kind of tony cheese­cake site, but I assure you, it’s all just a coin­cid­ence and the next image to post on this blog is sure to be some­thing with less poten­tial pruri­ent interest. But in case you were won­der­ing (and I have to say I really think you were), yes, that is young Helen Mirren above, young­er even than in Powell’s Age of Consent, doing a bit of faux-burlesque in the extraordin­ary object known as Herostratus, the sub­ject of today’s Foreign Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs’.