Watch out, ladies: a smitten lesbian may be inducing your dating service to set you up with johns and perverts to make you turn queer. At least that's the head-scratching scenario of writer/director Joseph Jacoby's first feature, 1969's Shame, Shame, Everybody Knows Her Name, which features Karen Carlson (Fleshburn) as the object of lady lust and "Getti" Miller as the Sapphic seducer. Also with Dennis Johnson from television's Dark Shadows and John Career Bed Cardoza as pervs, with an appearance by Rita Bennett as (surprise!) a go-go dancer and the late character actor Vic Vallaro as a deranged antiques dealer. Jacoby later wrote, directed, and starred in the 2008 made-for-television documentary A Case Of Mistaken Identity? in which he sought to use DNA science to uncover his unidentified father.
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From Amin Q. Chaudhri, the Punjabi director and cinematographer whose move to Los Angeles in the mid-sixties resulted in sexploitation fodder, though his unrealized pet project was an adaptation of Finnegan's Wake, comes The Love Generation (1967) and its profile of a wealthy hedonist and his movie camera.
In this lost 1967 softcore spectacular from Dore Productions, the only film from its director, Abe Lutz, private detective Johnny Mustang, played by, uh, "Johnny Mustang," is hired by a shifty attorney Stompano (Spiros Hatzes) to trail femme fatale Rena Davis, played by "Rena Davis." The path leads to a Nazi plot, sadomasochism, and bad acting. Website imdb.com humorously states this was made in 1961.
Actor Robert Hossein (Rififi) made his directorial debut with the 1955 Les bastards vont en enfer (Bastards Go To Hell), a grim and gritty tale of escaped convicts and their hostages. That one of those hostages is Marina "The Body" Vlady provided Hossein with an exploitable element, as can be seen in the campaign.
Before Megalopolis there was Tonight For Sure (1962), an oddball western nudie that's considered Francis Ford Coppola's first feature though co-written and co-directed by an uncredited Jerry Schafer (Like It Is). With Karl Schanzer from Spider Baby, Janet Leigh body double Marli Renfro (Psycho), and Virginia Gordon from Hot Spur. The same year Coppola tinkered with a 1958 German sex comedy, resulting in the lamentable The Bellboy And The Playgirls with June Wilkinson.
Former RAF flying ace Barry Mahon alerts grindhouse audiences to the dangers of hippie pads in this retitling of his grim 1968 feature Prowl Girls. With Sue Akers (Trailer Camp Sex Ring) and Kristen Blowdry Steen. Currently missing under either title.
Ron Baker (Wade Nichols from "The Edge Of Night") has a problem: an obsession with his teenage niece has led him to lust after underage girls. Directed by the late Carter (Punk Rock) Stevens, Jailbait features the under-appreciated Tina Lynn as the babysitter who instigates Ron's downfall, Sharon Mitchell (Wanda Whips Wall Street) as Ron's lesbian wife, Herschel Savage from Debbie Does Dallas, and Sexual Freedom In The Ozarks star Eric Edwards as the "Groundskeeper." Not a remake of the Ed Wood movie with the same title.
Former child star Russ Tamblyn, miles away from West Side Story, is Anchor, the aphorism-spouting leader of the titular cycle gang in this coarse cheapie from the inimitable Al Adamson. It also starred stuntman/actor Gary Kent (The Black Klansman), Lawrence Tierney's brother Scott Brady (Johnny Guitar), filmmakers Greydon Clark ("Acid") and "Bud" Cardos ("Firewater"), and Adamson's missus, "Freak Out Girl" Regina Carroll, as Anchor's neglected moll. With Bambi Allen (Linda and Abilene) as a geology student.
The first feature directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill (Angel and Avenging Angel), who also co-wrote this "truly unique experience" from 1968, aka The Sins Of The Daughter, was distributed by the Grads Corporation. It starred actor/filmmaker Tony Vorno (aka Sebastian Gregory), Victoria Bond from The Muthers, and Corman alumnus Beach Dickerson (Attack Of The Crab Monsters). Vorno is a gigolo who comes betwixt mother and daughter in a scuzzy script from the writer of drive-in dreck The Mighty Gorga. Also featuring Al Quick, who with "The Masochists" scored Greg Corarito's loopy Wanda, The Sadistic Hypnotist.
The brilliantly ballyhooed drive-in triple feature known as "Orgy Of The Living Dead" was a kooky conglomeration of the following horror films: the 1966 sanitarium slasher (and proto-giallo) La lama nel corpo (aka The Murder Clinic) from filmmakers Elio Scardamaglia and Lionello De Felice; Mario Bava's supernatural stunner Operazione paura (aka Kill, Baby...Kill!), also from 1966; and the sub-par Spanish vampire tale Malenka (1969), starring shapely Swede Anita Ekberg, from "Blind Dead" maestro Amando de Ossorio. The misleading new titles suggested that the films were related, which they were not, and ticket buyers expecting an orgy would drive home disappointed. A tawdry trailer purporting to depict an unfortunate viewer driven insane by the trio of titles was widely sampled in video compilations and can now be seen on YouTube.
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