{{short description|1974 film}} {{Distinguish|High School Girls}} {{Infobox film | name = High School Girl | image = The Visitor (1974 film).jpg | caption = | director = Sergio Martino | producer = Carlo Ponti | writer = {{ubl|Sergio Martino|Fernando Popoli|Sauro Scavolini}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Susan Player|Riccardo Cucciolla|Alfredo Pea|Hugh Griffith}} | music = Claudio Mattone | cinematography = Giancarlo Ferrando | editing = Eugenio Alabiso | studio = Champion Cinematografica | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1974|03|04|df=yes}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian | budget = | gross = }} '''''High School Girl''''' ({{Langx|it|Cugini carnali}}, also known as '' The Visitor'', ''Loving Cousins'' and ''Hot and Bothered'') is a 1974 commedia sexy all'italiana film co-written and directed by Sergio Martino and starring Susan Player.
==Plot == {{expand plot|date=October 2025}} A shy and inexperienced 16-year-old boy enjoys an awakening when his fast-living cousin from the city comes to stay at the family villa.
== Cast == * Susan Player as Sonia * Riccardo Cucciolla as Celio D'Altamura * Alfredo Pea as Nico D'Altamura * Hugh Griffith as Baron of Roccadura * Claudio Nicastro as Don Savino * Rosalba Neri as Altomare * Fiorella Masselli as Berenice * Renzo Marignano as Sonia' father * Lia Tanzi as Baron of Roccadura's maid * Mauro Perrucchetti as Arcalli * Edda Ferronao as Berenice * Raf Baldassarre * Carla Mancini
== Production == The film was produced by Champion Cinematografica.<ref name="bio">{{Cite book |last=Giusti |first=Marco |author-link=Marco Giusti |title=Dizionario Stracult della commedia sexy |date=2019 |publisher=Bloodbuster edizioni |isbn=978-88-943385-3-9 |pages=184–5|chapter=Cugini carnali}}</ref><ref name=enci>{{cite book |last1=Chiti |first1=Roberto |last2=Poppi |first2=Roberto |last3=Pecorari |first3=Mario |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano |date=1991 |publisher=Gremese Editore |isbn=978-88-7605-935-3 |pages=218-9 |chapter=Cugini carnali}}</ref> It was Martino's second consecutive film produced by Carlo Ponti, following the success of ''The Violent Professionals''.<ref name="bio" /> It had the working title ''La cugina'' ('The cousin'), that was changed because of the Aldo Lado's film with the same title.<ref name="bio" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Cugini Carnali |url=https://www.cineraglio.it/cugini-carnali/ |website=Cineraglio |access-date=1 November 2025 |language=it-IT}}</ref> Martino's first choices for the main role were Monica Guerritore and Gloria Guida.<ref name="bio" /> It was shot in Apulia, between Lecce, Monopoli, Nardò, Conversano and Porto Cesareo.<ref name="bio" /> Michele Massimo Tarantini served as assistant director.<ref name="enci" />
== Release == The film was distributed in Italian cinemas by Interfilm starting from 4 March 1974.<ref name="bio" />
== Reception == Domestically, the film was a success, grossing over 800 million lire.<ref name="bio" /> ''La Stampa'''s film critic Achille Valdata noted that "Martino lacks the effortless wit needed to handle a genre already showing evident signs of fatigue, only superficially concealed by the familiar verbal and visual extravagances".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Valdata |first1=Achille |title=I peccati veniali con tanta malizia |work=La Stampa |issue=57 |date=8 March 1974 |page=11}}</ref>
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{{Sergio Martino}} {{Authority control}} Category:Commedia sexy all'italiana Category:1970s sex comedy films Category:1972 comedy films Category:1974 Italian films Category:Films directed by Sergio Martino Category:Films about incest Category:Films shot in Apulia