As besotted, wheelchair-bound materfamilias Claris Manning, Maggie Rogers is a fireball of hatred in Andy Milligan's malignant masterpiece of misanthropy Seeds (1968). It's the "rotten family" theme, one of Milligan's favorites, and this homecoming of horrors may be the most "Milliganesque" of his entire oeuvre. Co-starring North Carolina's Candy Hammond, who, as recounted in Jimmy McDonough's jaw-dropping Milligan biography The Ghastly One, married the deranged director during filming. Also with Neil Flanagan (Guru, The Mad Monk), Susan Cassidy (Bloodthirsty Butchers), Eileen Hayes (The Ghastly Ones), Patricia Dillon (Gutter Trash), and the breasts of Linda Boyce.
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Arlene Farber (Two Girls For A Madman) starred as the title teen in her partner Jerry Gross' 1967 attempt to modernize the decades-old hygiene film (working title: The Hygiene Story), which had been a hallmark of the exploitation empires of Kroger Babb, S.S. Millard, and more. Also with Julie Ange (Girl On A Chain Gang), future voice actor Lynne Lipton (gamers' Grand Theft Auto), and the first screen appearance by the late Fred Willard (Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy). Soundtrack by prolific jingle writer and smut cinema scorer Steve Karmen (The Beautiful, The Bloody, And The Bare) and the otherwise unrecorded The Young Set, who also appear.
This 1973 softcore obscurity from Paul Mart Productions has yet to turn up, and its press book lists no other credits. It does, however, contain the following synopsis, which I am sharing, typos and all:
Harold succumbs to his wife Gloria's desire for some "special" servants for their new country home, so they drive into the big city to inspect Peter and Mala - an agency's choice for their needs. As soon as they have returned Harold tries Mala out, in the bed, and she passes with flying colors. Mala, a naive young girl, gets Peter into her confidence for her plan to take control of the country estate. Meanwhile, Harold plans to take over his neighbor's property. He holds a feast for the neighboring elite, at which he conspires with the sole producer of feed in the district to force the neighbor to sell his land by a blockade on his winter feed and water. Harold dams the stream to his neighbor's property. The neighbor realizes what has happened and, bent on revenge, pulls the dam down. In the process he also kills one of Harold's field servants. Paralled to this development, the relationship between Gloria, Harold, Mala and Peter becomes entwined. What started as fun orgies and a gentle laugh on the part of the owners of the estate turns to love between Gloria and servant Peter, and deep need on the part of Harold for Mala. Meanwhile though, the neighbor, now a killer, leaves the country to hide. Harold searches for him throughout the countryside, often being waylaid by the affectionate women of the areas. Harold'a over zealousness upon capturing him results in that neighbor's death. Meanwhile, the servants have mastered their masters, with Harold waiting on Mala for a glass of wine. His greed for acquisition has led to the conquering of his almighty ego by the power of a pussy. Or is he conquered? Running time: 73 minutes, color. MPAA Rating: X A 1964 program featuring two dubbed Mexican horror films was presented to U.S. kiddie matinee audiences courtesy of K. Gordon Murray, the poor man's Disney, and his crack team of Miami-based writers and voice actors. The 1958 Vampire's Coffin (El ataúd del vampiro) was from director Fernando Méndez (The Black Pit Of Dr. M) and starred Abel The Braniac Salazar as the title bloodsucker. It was paired with Rafael Portillo's The Robot Vs The Aztec Mummy (La momia azteca contra el robot humano) from the same year, one of three "Aztec Mummy" films made by Portillo that featured Ramón Gay (Yambaó) as Dr. Eduardo Almada. In 1960 Gay, a former heartthrob of Mexican cinema, was murdered by the jealous ex-husband of singer and film star Evangelina Elizondo.
Director Richard Hilliard's Wild Is My Love (1963) appears to be the only exploitation credit for the late Elizabeth MacRae (Lou-Ann Poovie from Gomer Pyle: USMC). She's Queenie, a stripper with whom three college students (one of whom is actor/songwriter Paul Hampton from Shivers) become darkly obsessed. Along with Hilliard films The Playground and The Secret Files of Detective 'X', it's apparently lost.
This 1969 softcore hump-athon from NYC's Distribpix starred Suzzan Landow from The Ultimate Degenerate as Suzette, an amoral lass hired by the mob to exhaust a young up-and-coming boxer so he'll lose an important match to their fighter. He's a challenge, however, so she enlists the help of a few assistants. Also with Linda Mnasidika Boyce and an uncredited cast and crew.
This 1972 sex comedy from the sole-credited Conrad Foxx starred Michael Stearns, the sniper from Zero In And Scream, as a seductive swindler who bets his buddies that he can make it with all the women who turned them down. The latter include ubiquitous Uschi Digard, Bambi Allen from Terror At Orgy Castle, and Susan Westcott (Country Cuzzins).
Wily William Mishkin bought the 1959 German crime drama Mädchen für die Mambo-Bar, about the prostitutes, dope addicts, and spies who frequent the titular nightclub, and tarted it up with a new campaign for a 1968 U.S. release. Prolific director Wolfgang Glück (False Shame) mostly worked for German television and later portrayed an impending victim of the psychotic duo in Michael Haneke's 1997 Funny Games.
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.
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