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Terri Tuesday

3/11/2025

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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.
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Nick Millard Monday

3/10/2025

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"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.
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Sylvia's Sunday

3/9/2025

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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.
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Strange Saturday

3/8/2025

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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).
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Sam Fuller Friday

3/7/2025

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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.
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Thirsty Thursday

3/6/2025

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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).
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Doris Wishman Wednesday

3/5/2025

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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.
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Chopper Tuesday

3/4/2025

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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."
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Monster Monday

3/3/2025

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Wisconsin filmmaker Bill Rebane (The Giant Spider Invasion) was unable to finish his first feature Terror At Halfday, a 1965 black and white sci-fi cheapie starring "World's Tallest Man" Henry Hite as  a pasty-faced alien. Enter "Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis, who bought Rebane's footage and "finished" the film in his inimitable way to round out a bill with his own Moonshine Mountain (1964). Phil Morton, who appears as Col. Steve Conners, is not the gag writer for Saturday Night Live as claimed by imdb.com, but Monster A Go-Go was, sadly, the final film of Hollywood star June Travis (Mr. Doodle Kicks Off).
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Striptease Sunday

3/2/2025

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Industrial filmmaker Marvin Rothenberg, who made the promotional film Telegram For America (1956) for Western Union, had previously overseen this bizarre "girlesque" feature from 1952 in which two robbers known as "The Strip Tease Bandits" force women guests at a luxury hotel to disrobe. The torrid tale turns out to be desk clerk Mathilde's dream, however, as she is stirred awake by the manager after giving the "robbers" her own enthusiastic bump and grind routine. Featuring striptease numbers by "That Erotic Eurasian" Gung Hai (featured prominently in the campaign), sassy Sue "Tassel" Travis, and class act Toni Lamont, along with burlesque comedian Sammy Birch (The Red Buttons Show) in a dual role as hotel manager and bandit.
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