Sande N. Johnsen of The Twisted Sex notoriety also gave us this 1967 softcore sexer that strings together the requisite groping as case histories related by a loose-lipped employee of a computer dating service. With Yolanda Signorelli from Too Much, Too Often!, the Bennett sisters Dawn and Darlene (The Soul Snatcher), and Steve Harris from Robert Downey's Chafed Elbows. Jeff Bezos-owned website imdb.com dubiously claims it also starred Betty Lynn, "Thelma Lou" from The Andy Griffith Show. Distributed by Chelly Wilson's Chellee Films but now apparently lost
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Miami movie legend Brad Grinter (Flesh Feast) purportedly cut costs on this R-rated 1970 cheapie, a late entry in the biker genre, by using students from his film class along with friends and members of his family as makeshift cast and crew. Runaway teen Kathy (Barry Mahon's daughter Sharon) gets chummy with a violent cycle club, leading to a showdown between the bikers and her black belt beau (real-life karate champ Ridgeley Abele). With stuntman Ross Kananga (Live And Let Die) sporting an eye patch as head cyclist Champ, Chris Martell from H.G. Lewis' The Gruesome Twosome, Simon Prescott (Hell's Bloody Devils), and an appearance by Florida psych band Heroes of Cranberry Farm (originally The Squires Four).
South African expatriate Charles Romine's only directorial outing, aside from sharing a credit on a feature about "ancient astronauts," was this sleazy 1968 sex-horror shocker for Harry Novak's Boxoffice International, originally released as the X-rated Any Body...Any Way. Seemingly meek birdwatcher Dr. Bradley (Daniel Garth), bearing an unsettling resemblance to Henry Kissinger, attends a hippie party to find new subjects for the experiment he's conducting "behind locked doors." With Ivan Agar (Shriek of the Mutilated), Frank Mini-Skirt Love Spencer, Michael McClanathan (Alice's Restaurant), and Madeleine La Roux from Cry Uncle! among a cast of mostly unknowns. Romine co-wrote the sicko script with Stanley Brassloff (Two Girls For A Madman).
For his fourth full directorial credit, indie legend Roger Corman (A Bucket Of Blood) worked from a script by David Stern, author of Francis, The Talking Mule and source of its sequels. There's no wisecracking ass in this tale but there is Mike (billed here as "Touch") Conners, later to be television's Mannix but here a kidnap victim opposite tough gal convicts Marie Windsor (Howco's Outlaw Women), A.I.P. fave Beverly Garland (It Conquered The World), and Susan "It's a cookbook!" Cummings. It's about a search for stolen diamonds hidden deep inside a Louisiana bayou. Carole Mathews (Female Fiends) is the policewoman who masterminds a plan to find the jewels by allowing the three cunning cons to escape and then tailing them through the snake-infested muck.
Jerald Intrator (Satan In High Heels) oversaw the 1972 English-language release of Horror y sexo, the racy export version of actor/director Rene The Braniac Cardona's 1969 La horripilante bestia humana, added medical footage of heart surgery, and saddled it with a memorably oddball title. It's a gamier remake of Cardona's 1963 Doctor of Doom with José Elías Moreno (Santa Claus) as a scientist who accidentally transforms his sickly son Julio (Augustín Martínez Solares) into a murderous monster (wrestler Gerardo Zepeda in a blockhead mask). Norma Lazareno (The Vengeance of the Vampire Women) is wrestler Lucy Osorio, though the ring action is watered down from Cardona's original. Intrator paired his result with Emilio Vieyra's 1967 Placer sangrieto, previously released in the U.S. as The Deadly Organ (see May 5 entry).
A veritable Who's Who of sixties' NYC and South Florida nudie films, Barry Mahon's 1965 oddity "in bloody panic color" also features the filmmaker himself in a dual role as a cop and the titular "beast" (a well-worn gorilla costume) causing havoc at a Miami nudist camp. Appearing sans costume are New York regulars Darlene Bennett (Take Me Naked), Gigi Darlene (Artist Studio Secrets), Judy Satan's Bed Adler, Janet Banzet from Professor Lust, future porn star Juliet "Aunt Peg" Anderson (Fox Holes), June Roberts (My Brother's Wife), and more. The Miami contingency includes Dolores Carlos (Indiscreet Stairway), H.G. Lewis associate Louise "Bunny" Downe from Scum of the Earth, Christy Foushee (It's Hot on Sin Island), and Sandra Sinclair (Blaze Starr Goes Nudist). Byron Mabe (The Defilers), who also appears, was Mahon's assistant director.
The late Nick Millard, son of Forty Thieves' S. S. "Steamboat" Millard (1927's Is Your Daughter Safe?) and director of the notorious .357 Magnum, followed in dad's footsteps with this 1965 provocation, his third exploitation feature. Narrated by future porn director Alan Colberg (Tapestry of Passion), the film's ostensible subject is female sexual perversion, though Millard thoughtfully includes predictable props germane to his genre: leather boots, masks, black gloves.
A Texas-set courtroom drama from the one and only Larry Buchanan (Strawberries Need Rain), Under Age (1964) charts the trial of a woman (Annabelle Weenick from Don't Look In The Basement) accused of provoking her 14-year-old daughter (Judy Adler from The Sin Syndicate) into having sex with a Mexican boy, also a minor. With Patrick Cranshaw from Hip, Hot & 21 and George Edgley repeating his role as the presiding judge from Buchanan's earlier courtroom opus Free, White and 21. Buchanan co-wrote the script with Harold Hoffman (The Black Cat), who administered a lie detector test in the director's The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde. Featuring the hillbilly tune "Boil Them Cabbage Down."
Director John Hayes (Grave of the Vampire) directed this 1969 feature about a schlub named Roger (Will Gary from Barbara) who, recently split from his wife and saddled with crippling alimony payments, relocates to a condo stocked with gullible and horny divorceés. To supplement his dwindling income, Roger convinces the naughty neighbors to stage a fetishistic sex show for paying customers. The cast includes Joy Kahl (Hayes' Help Wanted Female), Chris Mathis from Thar She Blows!, Kathy Williams (The Babysitter), and Tony Vorno from Hayes' The Hang Up.
Philadelphia's Stanley Brasloff (Two Girls For A Madman) directed this dark portrait of child-woman Jamie (Marcia Forbes in her only film) who suffers from a disturbing attachment to the childhood toys gifted by her absent whoremonger father (Peter Lightstone). Fran Warren (Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd) is Jamie's mother and Bill Landis fave Harlan Cary Poe (Stigma) portrays her understandably confused husband.
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