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THE BEST 100 WETLOOK SCENES FROM FILM & TV

Obviously my personal choice.

1 LOGAN’S RUN – Jenny Agattur in a wet green mini-dress

2 THE PARTY – Several wet scenes, but especially the girl saving Sellers from drowning.

3 DR. NO - Ursula Andress wades through mangrove swamps in a wet white tee shirt and uses reeds to breath underwater there too.

4 VIVA MARIA - Assassin, Brigit Bardot dressed as a man, wades through a river to escape from the army during the opening credits.

5 TARZAN THE APE MAN – Maureen O Sullivan river swim with Tarzan.

6 INFERNO – Dario Argento Horror with a beautifully filmed swim through a flooded cellar for one of the girls, in a white dress.

7 TARZAN THE APE MAN – Bo Derek swims in her dress several times.

8 MADONNA – CHERISH (pop video) Madonna romps in the surf in a black dress.

9 COOL HAND LUKE – the much imitated car-washing scene.

10 DR WHO – THE CURSE OF FENRIC – Sophie Aldred checks the waters by swimming in the sea in a 1940’s dress.

11 THE AVENGERS (TV) YOU HAVE JUST BEEN MURDERED The River fight between Diana Rigg and one of the villains

12 LA DOLCE VITA – Anita Ekberg’s iconic fountain wade sequence in the Trevi Fountain.

13/. SHIVERS – The Swimming Pool orgy finale

14 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER – GO FISH – Buffy takes on fish men in a flooded cellar

15 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW – Swimming Pool Orgy

16 SUPERMAN – Valerie Perrine saves Superman by swimming to his aid in a white dress.

17 THE POSIDON ADVENTURE (Original) Girls swimming through flooded rooms in hot pants and floaty dresses.

18 PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN – CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL – Keira Knightly forced to walk the plank

19 SUMMERTIME – Katherine Hepburn falls in the Venetian canal in a white dress – the actress got her eye damaged in the filming of the event.

20 THE PRISONER – THE CHIMES OF BIG BEN. (TV) – a girl swims to shore from a boat to escape capture by the Village guards. She wears white trousers.

21 SUMMER HOLIDAY – Audrey Hepburn swims across the Tiber to escape from the Paparazzi.

22 STINGRAY (TV SERIES) Closing credit scenes of the puppet mermaid swimming in her heavy green dress to the Aqua Maria song.

23 SUPERMAN 2 – Margot Kidder as Lois throws herself in Niagara Falls to force Superman/Clark Kent to rescue her.

24 THE NIGHTS OF CABIRIA – The prostitute heroine is pushed into a fast flowing river by her boyfriend.

25 SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE Doris Day jumps in the pool in a dress as the closing credits role – a scene intended for the late Marolyn Monroe.

26 ALIEN RESURRECTION Sigourney Weaver & Winona Ryder swim through flooded compartments of a spaceship pursued by the aliens.

27 THIS ISLAND EARTH – Heroine ducks underwater in a river to escape alien death rays, in white dress.

28 NIAGARA – Jean Peters trapped on a boat about to go over Niagara, scrambling onto rocks in a pair of shorts and a lumberjack shirt, soaking wet from the spray.

29 THE PRINCESS BRIDE – The kidnapped Bride tries to swim away in a red dress but the sea is full of Screaming Eels.

30 THE NAVIGATOR –Buster Keaton’s girlfriend slowly rising out of the sea after nearly drowning when she ends up on the hull of a submarine.

31 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS & KYLIE MINOGUE – ELISA DAY SONG – Kylie spends much of the video in a river in her dress.

32 THE PERSONALS – A couple roller skate into a lake, and stay there splashing around happily, She fills her hat with water and puts it on.

33 THE GETAWAY (Original) Steve McQueen dreams his lover (Ali McGraw) swims with him in a river in her black skirt and white blouse – as he stops dreaming, she does.

34 THE AU PAIR GIRLS - - One of the clumsy girls tears her short red mini dress then falls into a water trough – long love making scene as she removes her panties and then the dress.

35 SWEET CHARITY – Shirley Maclaine repeat of the Nights Of Cabiria near drowning scene (see 24)

36 LICENSE TO KILL – James Bond pulls his leading lady into a pool in her evening dress as the credits roll.

37. CONSTANTINE (2005) – Long fight scene in a swimming pool with two women getting immersed. Bathtub emersion in the same film.

38 FATAL ATTRACTION – Glenn Close is finally dispatched in the bathtub in a white dress, but is she really dead?

39 BETTY BLUE Bettie takes the suggestion of going for a swim as an instant order, and jumps in the river without undressing first.

40 BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA Kim Catrell is among a group of clothed women swimming from captivity through a sewer system.

41 THE DROWNING POOL – Woman tortured alongside Paul Newman by being sprayed with high pressure hose – later left to drown as the room fills with water – the victims try to use their clothes to block the water release valves.

42 MEN O’WAR – Laurel & Hardy sink every boat on a boating lake – several women end up swimming in 1920’s flapper dresses.

43 BEYOND THE POSIEDON ADVENTURE – Sally Field swims in a wet green trouser suit in an otherwise dire film.

44 THE BIG BUS – Strange but quite long wet scene with a woman almost drowned in room flooded by coca cola machine juices.

45 GET SMART - Agent 99, with Smart, and their boss, trapped in a flooding phone box.

46 GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES – Jane Russell falls in the pool while visiting the male Olympic athletes on the ship taking them to the games.

47 RED SONJA – Brigit Neilson fights monster in a flooded cave in her body hugging chain mail armour.

48-FATHOM Raquel Welch swims for her life in a tee shirt as a killer tries to run her down in a powerboat.

49 UP THE JUNCTION (TV version) Women (and men) break into a closed swimming pool and frolic in the water in their underclothes.

50 CAVE IN – Obscure Irwin Allen TV Film – A group of tourists, including three fully dressed women not in traditional caving safety gear try to swim through a flooded chamber when trapped / lost underground.

51 PRINCESS MONONOKE – Nicely animated wet scene where the heroine swims the wounded hero to an isle of healing.

52 THUNDERBALL – Bond and the heroine swim to a dinghy-life boat – she wears a wet tee shirt and the bottom half of a bikini.

53 KING KONG – 1977 VERSION - Jessica Lange is found at sea floating in a dark dress – her screen debut moment.

54 TWELVE PLUS ONE Sharon Tate swims after a chair, which might or might not contain the key to a fortune when it ends up in a swimming pool. Very transparent wet tee-shirt scene.

55 COYOTE UGLY –Film based on a real bar where barmaids dance round getting soaked in beer and water to entertain the punters.

56 BENEATH THE TWELVE-MILE REEF – girl swims in the sea and underwater in red blouse and her shorts.

57 VIDEO – OZZY OZBOURNE – NO MORE TEARS – A girl cries a room full of water, and slowly sinks in her red dress.

58 THE NEW AVENGERS - EMILY – Purdey, to protect a crook’s fingerprint on an old car (The Emily of the title), lies on the roof of the car as it rolls through a car wash, getting soaked, having her hair restyled and finding her clothes shrinking on her.

59 ZEPELLIN – Elke Sommer swims from the Zeppelin to shore as it crashes into the sea. She swears a dark skirt and a white blouse.

60 THE DUCHESS AND THE DIRTWATER FOX – Goldie Hawn almost drowns in a river while her lover debates whether to save her or a bag of stolen loot first.

61 SWAMP THING – Woman wades and swims in a monster and gun toting redneck infested Everglade swamp in various outfits.

62 CREEPSHOW 2 – Girls swim out in their shorts and tee shirts to a raft, and end up trapped there by a monster.

63 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – A dance floor built over a pool falls open – the dancers fall into the water but carry on dancing anyway.

64 CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE – Tarzan spoof in which a Thick Tarzan watches a girl swimming in her wet underclothes before joining her in the natural pool.

65 THE FOUR SEASONS – When the men jump out of a boat into a lake in their clothes to show off, their wives decide to join in.

66 JOSEPH ANDREWS Ann Margaret as the aptly named Lady Booby stands up while swimming in the sea in an Edwardian bathing dress that is quite transparent.

67 ROMANCING THE STONE – Lots of images of Kathleen Turner wet, though the best is her rising up in the river after the mudslide descent to find Michael Douglas with his head stuck between er thighs.

68 QUANTUM LEAP (TV) LEAPING OF THE SHREW - Brook Shields as a spoilt brat shipwrecked with hero Sam. She is first seen swimming in the sea in her red dress - later she is pulled into a river by Sam when the argue on their desert island.

69 HANNIE CAULDER Raquel Welsh, on advice, takes a bath in her jeans to get them to shrink fit her.

70 ZABRISKE POINT – The heroine stands under a pouring shower of water in an outhouse for several minutes in her clothes.

71 BRIDGET JONES – THE EDGE OF REASON. Bridget, stoned on drugs, wades around in the sea looking at pretty but imaginary colours, and then flops out on the beach in imitation swimming strokes. – Later rain and buses going through puddles soak her again.

72 THE SOUND OF MUSIC – Julie Andrews in Swiss national dress capsizes a boat in the river and wades round trying to bring it to shore.

73 GIRL INTERRUPTED – Troublesome patient Winona Ryder gets thrown in the bath during treatment at a psychiatric institution.

74 CABIN BY THE LAKE – Madman untypical of wet fans drowns women in the lake and keeps swimming down to redress and fondle the bodies – a Survivor dreams that he has survived and is attacking her as she swims in a river fully dressed. .

75 DIRTY DANCING – Dancing lessons for the female lead in the lake

76 XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS - TV - MORTAL BELOVED Xena uses an underwater route to swim to Hades in her black underwear to save an old friend’s soul.

77 THE DOVE A round the World single-handed boats-man briefly cheats when his girlfriend swims out to join him on his boat.

78 DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - Opening Episode where Felicity Huffmann, in full mourning finery interrupts a funeral by walking into a swimming pool to retrieve her unruly children who have refused to get out for her.

79 JONATHON CREEK – THE SEER OF THE SANDS a woman twice wades into the sea to deal with a body she has found floating there.

80 FASTER Pussycats, KILL, KILL. - A girl is ordered to attack another girl in the lake – both are fully dressed.

81 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER – Two girls, Bambi & Thumper, in leotards, try to drown bond in a swimming pool.

82 FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT – Couple wake up to find their house is floating out to sea, and sinking – they fall around in their nightclothes in the water awaiting rescue.

83 GODSPELL – A modern messiah baptises his friends in a fountain in a spectacular aquatic clothed dance routine.

84 BRINGING UP BABY - Katherine Hepburn with Carry Grant, wades across a shallow river but its actually much deeper – ha!

85 BLUE HAWAII Elvis drags his girlfriend into the sea – when she complains that he has ignored her new dress and ruined it he tells her that on her, wet is his favourite colour.

86 THE SPY WHO LOVED ME – Barbara Bach escapes a sinking underwater base in a black cocktail dress.

87 SPLASH – a man trying to prove she has a mermaid tale when wet finally splashes Daryl Hannah with water.

88 THE ISLAND AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD – Woman swims to the rescue when the heroes are trapped on a burning Viking funeral ship.

89 THE OUTLAW – Jane Russell waist deep in the creek trying to drown Billy The Kid.

90 HEATHERS – Winona Ryder walks into the showers in her school uniform.

91 IF ITS TUESDAY THIS MUST BE BELGIUM – Tourist falls into a fountain as the last straw in a very bad day for her.

92 AND GOD CREATED WOMAN – Bridget Bardot is pushed into the sea to escape a burning motorboat.

93 THE NEW AVENGERS - COMPLEX – Joanna Lumley as Purdey is trapped in an office block by a psychotic computer. She defeats it by setting the sprinklers off so the water blows up the electronics. She gets drenched in a flowery dress in the process.

94 CASINO ROYALE – The heroine takes a shower in her black dress.

95 THE BIRDS 2 (TV film) – A family capsize their boat to shelter under the hull as the birds attack.

96 THE MOSQUITO COAST – Helen Mirren wades in the surf in a dress.

97 JAWS 3- 3D – The shark traps people in a flooded aquarium underground chamber in their clothes

98 RIVER OF NO RETURN – Marolyn Monroe shoots the rapids getting her tight jeans soaked – her only known wetlook scene.

99 BETTIE BLUE – Bettie, on a suggestion of going for a swim, jumps in the river in her clothes without hesitation and just floats there.

100 THE LAST VOYAGE – Much of the film deals with a woman trapped in a flooded cabin on a sinking ship.

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