"They trade kisses for drinks!" Former burlesque performer turned impresario and filmmaker Lillian Everybody's Girl Hunt co-directed, with James R. Connell (Merry Maids Of The Gay Way), this 1952 staging of a burlesque revue at Los Angeles' Burbank Theater, then managed and operated by Hunt's Follies, Inc. enterprise. For her bump and grind routine, star stripper Lily Ayers is a B-girl on a barroom set reminiscent of junior high stagecraft. There's also peelers Ginger Duvall (Russ Meyer's The French Peep Show), Crystal Starr (French Follies), Chili Pepper (Vegas Nights), Nona Carver ("Sleazy Maisie Rumpledinck" from Ed Wood's 1970 opus Take It Out In Trade), and more. If you watch these for the comedians, they're here as well.

Former cowboy, stuntman, U.S. Air Force pilot, B-movie actor, and inspiration for a feature film starring Robert Mitchum (The Last Time I Saw Archie), Arch Hall Sr. (Eegah!) also wrote and produced low-budget films, including this 1964 nudie cutie (sans nudity!) that stars Tommy Holden (Get Outta Town) as a door-to-door bra salesman. With Marilyn Manning from 1963's The Sadist, Nancy Czar from the Hall-produced Wild Guitar (1962), and Joan Howard from Ray Dennis Steckler's The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964) as a hillbilly. Director Bob Wehling had previously helmed the nudie cutie Magic Spectacles (1961), also with Holden. Cinematography was by the late Vilmos Zsigmond (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind), with editing and co-production by Anthony The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant Lanza.

Lon Chaney Jr. (Fireball Jungle) makes for a horrible "Hungarian" vampire in the Siodmak brothers' 1943 Son Of Dracula, directed by Robert (The Spiral Staircase) and written by Curt (The Wolf Man) with Eric Taylor (the 1943 Phantom Of The Opera). And with that pedigree it's a surprisingly pedestrian affair about a Southern heiress (Louise Crazy House Allbritton) who invites the suspiciously named Count Alucard (Chaney) to her New Orleans plantation. With Robert Paige from The Monster And The Girl, Dr. Cyclops' Evelyn Ankers, and Jim the Crow from Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life.

The first of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me cinematographer Ron The Toy Box Garcia's four feature films as director, 1970's The Pleasure Machines was a soft core sci-fi satire about an inventor whose creation of lifelike sex robots leads to escalating demands from his rapacious wife (Barbara Lynn from 2069 A.D.) and needling neighbors. Also with Beverly Walker from Hollywood 90028, Jay Starlet! Donahue, and Natasha Shore from You! as one of the "love robots." Garcia associate Paul Hunt of Canyon Films was both cinematographer and executive producer.

This 1970 cheapie from New York's Chancellor Films (Franchesca's Sexual Whirlpool) starred prolific porn partners Patrick Wright and Talie Cochrane (Devil's Ecstacy) among an uncredited cast and crew. Wright's character, a sadomasochistic hitman who enjoys being beaten with a steel claw hammer, is seduced by the vengeful sister (Cochrane) of his latest victim. And because this tawdry title has yet to turn up, we may never know the exact nature of her revenge.

"King Leer" Russ Meyer's follow-up to the ground-breaking Lorna was this delirious 1965 rustic rube revue, originally titled Rope of Flesh. Based on the pulpy 1958 novel "Streets Paved With Gold" by Raymond Friday Locke, it featured Lorna's Hal Hopper (The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin) as a scheming, small-town drunkard who learns that his wife (the sole film credit of animal trainer Antoinette Cristiani) is tight with a handsome stranger in town (Meyer regular John Furlong). The Depression-era depravity also stars Rena Horten from teen comedy Out of Sight (1966), Lorna Hip, Hot and 21 Maitland, Meyer pal Stuart Lancaster (Thar She Blows!), and the one and only Princess Livingston (Pufnstuf). 

Former RAF pilot Barry Censored Mahon's seemingly endless stream of sixties' nudie movies included this dark 1965 take on the day in the life of a Times Square hooker named Shelly. She's portrayed by Virginia Aster, whose only other film credit is a Mahon short feature. With Allen Joseph from Eraserhead and Phil Fitzpatrick, who also edited.

Joel Bloodsucking Freaks Reed's first feature, a 1968 bogus documentary on sex for sale in the Big Apple, featured the elfin director as a giggling, whip-wielding sadist along with an early appearance by hardcore superstar Georgina Spelvin (The Devil In Miss Jones), who narrates, as therapist Dr. Joanne Ridgefield. Also featured is the painted torso of Jennifer Welles (Reed's subsequent Career Bed), top stripper Geri Miller from Paul Morrissey's Andy Warhol's Trash, Cherie Winters (Passion In Hot Hollows), and a surplus of kitschy kink.

Famed grindhouse director Andy Milligan's 1967 apocalyptic potboiler The Degenerates was long thought lost, but a print was recently located in a Belgian film archive. A restoration of that film, along with Milligan's earlier Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, was given its world premiere on June 13 at the Village East by Angelika in NYC. It starred the late Bryerly Lee from Milligan's still-missing The Naked Witch (1967) as Violet, the oldest of five sisters who have managed to withstand a nuclear holocaust. Trouble brews when three male survivors arrive at the sisters' ramshackle farmhouse, looking for food and fornication. Also with Ann Linden (Milligan's lost The Filthy Five), future best-selling author Laura Shaine Cunningham, and television actor/director Robert Burgos.

Bonus: an excerpt from writer Jimmy McDonough's introduction to the Tribeca Film Festival's screening of Severin Films' restoration of Andy Milligan's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and The Degenerates.
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The 1963 Italian "mondo" feature Mondo Nudo from director Francesco De Feo (The Prisoner of the Iron Mask), known as a peplum script writer, was released in the U.S. in 1968 with a new title and additional footage from Albert T. Viola (Preacherman). The film includes a purported NYC "happening," hypnotism in Ceylon, nude sunbathing in Denmark, a gay fashion show in the Phillipines, and "disaster" tourism in Hiroshima. Unlike the film itself, Teo Usuelli's soundtrack is still available.