Barry The Dead One Mahon's lost 1965 nudie, often confused with his 1964 "documentary" Nudes, Inc., starred Rick Bolan as a figure photographer who recounts his secrets for success in coaxing women to doff their duds for his camera. His sculptor friend also weighs in with tricks of the trade, and we meet two models who pose for a painter only to discover that he only paints houses.
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Producer/directed Joseph Robertson (The Slime People) was behind this 1970 softcore trifle about businessman George (Victor Rich) who encourages his wife Martha's (Karen Johnson) interest in mate swapping by taking her to an orgy. With jumbo Jack King from The Toy Box, marvelous Mia Coco (Street Of A Thousand Pleasures), and poor old Edward D. Wood, Jr. as a drunken transvestite. Featuring the song "Mrs. Stone Wants To Swing" by sixties' soul group Kent and the Candidates.
Also known as The Killer Lust, Skabenga (1955) was directed by George Michael (not the popstar) from a script by former Three Stooges director Edward Bernds (Return Of The Fly). Based on the 1954 novel "African Fury" by Michael. Filmed along Africa's "Suicide Trails" and released by Allied Artists.
Avant-garde filmmaker and Kenneth Anger associate Curtis Harrington turned his attention to feature-length genre films with this 1961 classic from American International. Prolific actor Dennis Hopper (The Last Movie) stars as sailor Johnny Drake, who becomes obsessed with the mystery surrounding a carnival's mermaid attraction (Linda Lawson from television's Adventures In Paradise and many others). With the late, great Luana Anders, who also appeared in Harrington's Games and a handful of films with pal Jack Nicholson, and Marjorie Cameron from Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
Before his time directing the Death Wish films for Charles Bronson, U.K. filmmaker Michael Winner made a handful of nudies including this comedy about a naturist (actual nudist Julie Wilson from The Strange One) who attempts to introduce her husband, parents, and everyone else to the butt-baring lifestyle of nudism. With Douglas Muir (The Naked Edge) and Vicki Smith from the "Carry On" series. Not to be confused with the 1977 Tony Curtis vehicle sharing the same title.
Nicholas Meriwether (aka Arch Hall Sr.) produced this anachronistic 1965 western as a starring vehicle for son Arch, Jr., who portrays Billy May (not the trumpeter), a cowpoke who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. That place is Deadwood, South Dakota, site of a major gold rush and final resting place of Wild Bill Hickok (portrayed here by Richard Dix's son Robert from Forbidden Planet). Also with lascivious Liz Renay (John Waters' Desperate Living), Jack Lester (Albert Peckingpaw from Jennie: Wife/Child), Read Octaman Morgan, John "Bud" Cardos (Satan's Sadists), and Arch Sr. himself. Direction was by Hall family associate James Landis, whose finest moment was undoubtedly The Sadist (1963). Filmed on location in South Dakota's Black Hills.
Balling others can be good for your marriage, or so claims filmmaker William K. Hennigar (Mr. Mari's Girls) in this 1970 peek at a rock singer (Maria Lease of Mnasidika) and her disinterested writer husband (musician and Chumlum actor Barry Titus). With Robin Nolan from Teenage Gang Debs, Verne Surfside Sex Williams, and Dark Shadows star Christopher Pennock. From the Cannon Group prior to their pre-Golan and Globus days.
Former Errol Flynn pilot and nudie filmmaker Barry Mahon wrote and directed this tall tale about shipwrecked sailor Stanton (character actor Eddie Dew from Them!) who drifts ashore on an uncharted island where he is greeted by the Skipper, Gilligan, and....wait, wrong island. This island is populated by beautiful, scantily clad women (all cast by glamour photographer Bunny Yeager), who take Stanton prisoner with the intent of killing him. Will smitten Princess Nani Maka (the actual Nani Maka, in her only film appearance) save him from their Amazonian wrath? With a formidable sea god totem and a giant clam as well as underwater footage shot at the Miami Seaquarium.
Billed as a "documentary" about a rock music festival "near one of America's largest cities," this hippie hokum stars Florida's own Terri Juston (Miss Leslie's Dolls) along with future hardcore heavy hitters Jamie Gillis (Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town), Marc "10 1/2" Stevens (Teenage Hitchhikers), and "Tanya Tickler" from It Happened In Hollywood. Written, produced, and directed by the pseudonymous "A. J. Romero." Only the film's trailer survives.
Harry Kerwin (Strange Rampage), the younger brother of Bill (Blood Feast) Kerwin, wrote and directed this oddball 1970 Miami-based mash-up of nudist film, Please Don't Touch Me-style sex hang-up exposé, and full-frontal investigation of the swinging lifestyle. Both brothers also appear in the film, with Bill starring as Steve, a television cameraman whose wife Lori (Suzan Thomas from Odd Triangle) avoids his amorous affections. So naturally he follows the advice of his friend George (Brad Grinter from Blood Freak) and takes her to a nudist colony. What follows revolves around a secret plot concocted by George and his wife Liz (Sherry Nealson from nothing else) to induct Steve and Lori in their swingers' circle. With Harry and Bill's sister Betty and Bill's daughter Barbara as sun worshippers along with appearances from numerous bosom buddies of Grinter from Spartan's Tropical Gardens Nudist Camp. The title referenced Richard Brooks' raunchy adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird Of Youth (1962), also filmed in South Florida.
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