Silent film vet Oliver Drake, who also helmed the atrocious The Mummy And The Curse Of The Jackals (1969), wrote this 1968 proto-slasher, also known as The Las Vegas Strangler, with his wife June (aka Liz Marshall), who also co-stars with Robert Dix (Forbidden Planet). Also with John "Bud" Cardos from The Female Bunch and Ewing Brown (The Astounding She-Monster). Scenes were filmed in Las Vegas and at the Ash Meadows Sky Ranch brothel in Pahrump, Nevada.
Perhaps the most tasteless exploitation film ever made, this 1968 documentary was retooled after its star died in a gruesome automobile accident during production. Thus, zany segments of Jayne visiting drag bars, go-go clubs, the Place Pigalle, a nudist colony, and other once-exotic locales are capped with B&W crime scene photos of her tragic death. From the refined sensibility of producer Dick Pieces Randall, who also appears onscreen, and co-directed by cinema scribe Arthur Knight, Joel All Of Me Holt, and Charles Broun of She-Man: A Story Of Fixation (1967). With Jayne's sons Mickey Jr. and Zoltan Hargitay; and musical appearances by Django crooner Rocky Roberts and his band the Airedales along with topless femme band The Ladybirds.
The first feature from tragic, talented Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) starred horror icon Barbara Steele from Black Sunday as a newlywed tourist possessed by the spirit of the ugliest goddamn witch (Joe Riley) in cinema history, and also featured Mel Welles from AIP films. It was paired with Dino Tavella's 1965 necrophile classic originally titled Il mostro di Venezia, with Elmo Caruso from Frankenstein '80 and special guest appearance by Anita Pallenberg.
In this 1963 Barry Mahon nudie, a voyeuristic photographer (Michael Barron) waiting for his professional model (Terry Moore, but not the Mighty Joe Young co-star) to arrive for a photo shoot kills time by eyeing naked women in other apartments, somehow without leaving his own. Among his supposedly unsuspecting subjects you'll find NYC skin cinema regulars Gigi Darlene (Bad Girls Go To Hell), Davee Decker from Bunny Yeager's Nude Camera, Alice (Olga's Girls) Denham, Monica Davis from Mahon's The Dead One, and "Olga" herself, Audrey Campbell, wielding her trusty hairbrush. Also with future filmmaker Byron Mabe (Space Thing).
From Aquarius Releasing, the company that brought you Dr. Butcher, M.D., comes this 1973 Italian import, originally titled Diario segreto da un carcere femminile, from Love Angels director Rino Di Silvestro. With giallo heavy hitter Anita Strindberg (A Lizard In A Woman's Skin), Jenny Tamburi (The Sinful Nuns Of Saint Valentine), and Olga (Super Fly T.N.T.) Bisera demonstrating dermatological hygiene in an institutional setting.
This odd, occult-themed softcore porn feature from the singularly-credited Lawrence Ramport is notable primarily for the starring role given top-heavy Uschi Digard (Female Chauvinists), who with her pal Neola Graef (The Godson) portray two hookers hooked on rituals involving monks with dildos. But if you're looking for a plot, you won't find one here.
An ad for Russ Meyer's Mudhoney (1965) under its original title and a different campaign that emphasized rural dissolution over the usual bosom fetish. With Meyer stock actors Hal Hopper (television's The Adventures Of Rin Tin Tin), John Furlong (narrator for the unforgettable intro to Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), Lorna (Lorna) Maitland, and Stuart Lancaster (Supervixens). Also with Rena Horten from Out Of Sight (1966) and the inimitable Princess Livingston (Pufnstuf).
The late Donn Davison would occasionally dust off his 1971 crapfest Honey Britches, written by his then-wife, and re-release it under different titles, among them Hillbilly Hooker, Honey Pie, Moonshiner's Women, Little Whorehouse On The Prairie, etc. In 1986, Fred Olen Ray filmed new wraparound scenes with John Carradine and dumped it on the home video market as Demented Death Farm Massacre. Davison's original featured George ("Bestoink Dooley") Ellis and Pepper Thurston from Lee Jones' indescribable The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973).
This phony U.K. documentary from 1961 purports to examine the British sex trade. It's almost entirely staged, and identifiable cast members include Andria Lawrence from Countess Dracula and David The Asphyx Grey. Director Arnold Louis Miller also made the ersatz mondo features London In The Raw (1964) and Primitive London (1965) prior to his production of Michael Reeves' classic Witchfinder General (1968).
Carl Monson (A Scream In The Streets) both helmed and acted in this soft-porn parable, his second directorial effort, about a home invasion by a pair of rampaging bikers. Prior to his filmmaking career, Monson had worked with the prestigious Pasadena Community Playhouse, and with his wife founded The Curtain Call Theatre of North Hollywood, "an international playhouse run by professional actors." Monson's theatre associates likely did not include his actors for this proudly prurient production, among them Anna Travers from Overdose Of Degradation, Cosby accuser Vicki A Sweet Sickness Carbe, and someone hiding behind the moniker "Rulo Thumb."
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