Ubiquitous sexploitation star Maria Arnold (The Toy Box) is the title character in Harry Novak's quickie cash-in on the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping, released in 1976 while she was on trial for the accusation of abetting her Symbionese Liberation Army captors in a series of robberies. Tania bypasses the trauma-inducing details of Hearst's rape and subsequent brainwashing in favor of lighthearted softcore hook-ups within the band of randy revolutionaries. B.B. Hinds (the 3-D Black Lolita) is gang leader Cinque, and the sole-credited Shani Nyota is "Pat Nixon." Husband and wife team Tallie Cochrane and Patrick Wright were also on the payroll of the only noted feature from producer/director Nate Rodgers.

"Sex, sensuality, sadism, and suspense!" This apparently lost Texploitation feature from 1969 was a roughie that revolved around a corrupt rock star and blackmailer named Bix Bennett. This seamy cinematic sludge starred the pseudonymous "Tom Forrest" and Larry Buchanan mainstay Byron Mars Needs Women Lord. Also featured were alumni from Whit Boyd (Party Girls) productions, including the singularly-named Adarainne, Helen Ware, and Judy Farr. This "sex-sational exposé of the rock 'n roll stars who make a million!" offered up body painting, whipped cream, and knife torture along with its groupie abuse.

More fun from Florida: Terri Juston (Miss Leslie's Dolls) made her adult film debut in this 1971 tale of satyric swingers from Bud Sextet Irwin, who also appears as a desk clerk. Irwin's spouse, glamour photographer Bunny Yeager, produced (Bun-Bud Productions) and wrote the title song. Aside from a trailer and other promotional materials, it's soft X history. Juston later appeared in Crown International's Little Laura And Big John (1973), which starred fading pop star Fabian and an embarrassed-looking Karen Black. Irwin also helmed the bilious biker opus Orgy Of Revenge, also starring Juston and with production once again from Bunny, prior to him being found shot to death inside his automobile in 1977.

"War Is Good Business. Invest Your Son." The son of original "Forty Thieves" promoter S. S. Millard (1927's Is Your Daughter Safe?), San Francisco-based smut sorcerer Nick Millard (Criminally Insane) churned out this early (1967) example of the "crazy Vietnam vet" (aka "vetsploitation") theme that later motivated Canada's Naked Massacre (1976) and Shaun Costello's appalling Forced Entry (1973), among others. With Janice Kelly (Alice In Acidland) and a handful of sole credits. Featuring a topless shoe shine and jump cuts that rival Andy Warhol.

Another Floridian fable from Florida's funky filmmaking family the Kerwins, the 1965 Sylvia's Girls was directed by Bill (Blood Feast) Kerwin, produced by brother Harry, and written by younger brother Edwin. Bill's wife Betty also appears, as does former heavyweight boxing champion and anti-apartheid hero Larry "The Easton Assassin" Holmes. The singularly credited Cynthia Williams is the madam of the title and Valerie Hawkins from The Sting Of Death is her newest recruit, a hot-to-trot honey who decides she may as well be getting paid for it. The oddball tag line "see the inside of Sylvia's house" must have been aimed at Architectural Digest subscribers.

The Monster Of Piedras Blancas director Irv Berwick helmed this tawdry tale from 1964 about a med student (Solomon Sturges) whose rampant voyeurism threatens to derail his future as a physician. Sturges, the son of Hollywood legend Preston Sturges (Sullivan's Travels), offers a credible performance as the pervert peeper that helps elevate Strange Compulsion above the usual dross while also giving voyeurs in the audience an eyeful of his ovoidal obsessions. With Jason Johnson (The Cape Canaveral Monsters) as the vexed voyeur's shrink and Annabelle (Don't Look In The Basement) Weenick as the source of his mommy issues. "Tex"-ploitation mainstay Dale Berry of Hot Blooded Woman infamy also appears, as does Beverly Oliver, the star of Berwick's clammy Christian clunker Suddenly The Light (1978).

Hard-boiled ex-newspaperman Sam Fuller's 1953 espionage thriller starred Richard "Tommy Udo" Widmark as Skip McCoy, a pickpocket who accidentally lifts a cache of microfilm wanted by foreign agents. Yes, kids, this was made before we had a President who was collaborating with a Russian dictator, way back when such an act would be considered traitorous and dealt with severely. With Jean Peters (Love That Brute) and a memorable turn from Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter.

Unsung smut salesman Jack Bravman (Blonde On A Bum Trip) co-produced this lost 1969 softcore sex-horror film with hairless Al Marvin (Crack-Up) for their Enrico Alexandros distribution company. So obscure it isn't listed in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films (1961-70).

Doris Wishman's 1963 epidermal exposé was a hodgepodge of stock footage from Europe spliced into the nudist camp reels that were the specialty of her early career. With Miami-based sexploitation stalwarts Christy Foushee (Blood Feast) and Maria (Diary Of A Nudist) Stinger, along with Betty Andrews (Odd Triangle) and yucky Chuck Traynor's then-wife Eileen. Also featuring the great Louis Prima backed by Sam Butera and the Witnesses, who reportedly did not appear nude. Though considered lost, hope springs eternal among Wishman fans that a print is somewhere waiting to be found.

Arch Hall (What's Up Front) wrote and produced this teen gear head saga as a starring vehicle for his son Arch, Jr (The Sadist), who's the leader of a pack of pimply thieves that "salvage" automobile parts to sell to junkyard impresario and A.I.P. mainstay Bruno VeSota (Attack Of The Giant Leeches). Burr (Mistress Of The Apes) Middleton appears, as does western vet Rex Holman (13 Fighting Men) and Marianne Gaba from Missile To The Moon. Arch Sr. also pops up in an uncredited role, and Arch Jr. and the Archers perform "Monkey In My Hatband."