Paul Stanley and Harry Kleiner‘s Cry Tough (United Artists) opened in August 1959, when steamy, semi-nude sex scenes were all but absent from mainstream American films.

Cry Tough was mainly a crime film about Puerto Rican gang activity in Spanish Harlem, but between 39:00 and 43:53 there’s a fairly provocative bedroom scene between John Saxon, 23, and the Argentinian actress Linda Cristal, 28.

Saxon and Cristal died almost exactly a month apart in 2020 — 7.25.20 and 6.27.20 respectively.

Kleiner’s screenplay is based on Irving Shulman’s 1949 novel of the same name, which was about a Jewish Brooklyn gang.