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They'd also have sex scenes-or implied off screen sex- just to have one. Eastwood bangs some girlfriend early on in Coogan's Bluff, never see her again. Eastwood screws the girl in the next apartment in one of the Dirty Harry movies, just cause lol
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They also used to have gratuitous titty scenes. Not sex scenes with the star, but topless women in a pool scene, or seeing a half naked woman through a window or in a strip club.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
They'd also have sex scenes-or implied off screen sex- just to have one. Eastwood bangs some girlfriend early on in Coogan's Bluff, never see her again. Eastwood screws the girl in the next apartment in one of the Dirty Harry movies, just cause lol
In the Maltese Falcon the detective also bangs a librarian semi-randomly, with no real bearing on the plot, if I remember correctly. It was a common device to titillate the audience, but also to flesh (pun) out the protagonist a bit as a bounder without explicitly making him a man-whore.
The ham-fisted random titties fan-service of the era is best exemplified by Vanishing Point, in my opinion (perhaps the ultimate example of bad 70s movies that don't hold up for crap) where one of the "weird shit seen in the desert " scenes is a topless chick riding a bouncy minibike at a hippie commune.
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I think due to social standards at the time, the scenes had to be brief & random. If there was too much buildup before the nip-slip, or they lasted more than a second or two (or for multiple cuts), they'd be seen as profane rather than cheeky, if that makes any sense. The point was to titillate the viewer, not arouse them (it was guys on dates at movie theatres in public, remember). Everyone's tolerance for such things is way higher today of course, so it does make the fan service of these movies seem really quaint, kind like the proverbial lifting petticoats to show off ankles thing.