If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind


If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind is a 1974 comedy film directed by Keefe Brasselle and I. Robert Levy.
The film was followed by the sequel Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses?

Plot summary

The World Society of Sexual Arts and Sciences holds its annual meeting to select the year's winners of the World Sex awards. The selection committee views film clips of the various contestants. At the final awards show, the golden "dildies" are presented to the winners and Keefe Brasselle sings and dances with showgirls.

Reception

of The New York Times panned the film as "a collection of witless blackout sketches dealing with infidelity, wedding nights, impotence and masturbation, played by a small cast of not very talented actors." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune, reviewing its first Chicago engagement in 1980, gave the film zero stars out of four and called it a "sleazy, unfunny sex comedy," admitting that "I lasted 30 minutes before walking out." He selected it for a "Dog of the Week" segment on PBS' Sneak Previews. Colin Phalow of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A tasteless revue of dramatised graffiti, dirty one-liners and 'after-dinner' jokes. Showman Keefe Brasselle co-directs with an embarrassing, misplaced nostalgia for the stale techniques of the weekly comedy hour he hosted on American TV in the late Sixties; the 'big band' score, cramped camerawork, run-on skits, creaking song and dance routines and corny opticals certainly hasn't improved with age."