New York's Chancellor Films distributed this lost 1967 skin flick from the redoubtable director of The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare, Sande N. Johnsen (who also appeared), with a script from future television writer Eugene Price (Smash-Up on Interstate 5). It starred Mitchell McGuire, later in the film version of Oh, Calcutta, along with Cherie Winters from Joe Sarno's The Sex Cycle; and soon-to-be star of television's inexhaustible General Hospital and face of Pazuzu from The Exorcist, lean Eileen Dietz. Stunts were handled by the Hooker brothers, Billy Hank and Buddy Joe. Note how the campaign cleverly references the sixties' Eric Berne bestseller while skirting copyright violations by denying any connection.
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Former Disney director Tom McGowan (The Hound That Thought He Was A Raccoon) wrote the gonzo Cherry, Harry & Raquel for Russ Meyer and directed this 1970 Vietnam-era sex spoof for Harry Novak's Boxoffice International. Glenn Ford's son Peter (The Proud and Damned) is draft dodger Wilbur Steele, who unwittingly signs up to sire 2,000 children as part of an insidious plot masterminded by Russ Meyer favorite Stuart Lancaster. Also with Barry Mahon vet Keith McConnell, Elizabeth Knowles from Trader Hornee, and an appearance by Ronee Blakley from Robert Altman's Nashville. Featuring the song "Baby Factory" by The Toad Stools.
Philippine director Eddie Romero (Mad Doctor of Blood Island) helmed this 1965 World War II drama, also known as Only the Brave Know Hell. John Saxon (Nightmare On Elm Street) leads a group of Philippine guerrillas to defeat a Japanese plan to ship gold bullion to Tojo. Meanwhile, a U.S. informant (Bronwyn FitzSimons, daughter of Maureen O'Hara) poses as a nun to avoid discovery by her Japanese captors. With frequent heavy Vic Diaz (Vampire Hookers) and prolific Filipino actor Fernando Poe, Jr. from Eric Estrada's MasterBlaster.
This 1961 nudie from Fred Hudson and Larry Smith (Ed Wood's still photographer) was admittedly "very loosely" based on a Rudyard Kipling poem. It was co-produced by Larry's brother Harry Smith (producer of Dance Hall Racket, not the folk anthology mastermind) and starred pianist Felix De Cola as ladies' man Tommy Atkins, who relates his global sexual conquests in flashback. The segment involving "the sweet thing of 16" may raise a red flag in our more proscriptive era, though the actor in question, Margie Fisco from Monstrosity (1963), is clearly older. The campaign was heavy on promotion, as you'd expect from "America's Fearless Young Showman."
Porn star Becky Sharpe (Ride A Cock Horse) stars in this truckin' tale from "Howland Water" that also features Jack Driscoll from Sweet Jesus, Preacherman and Sean Kenney (Terminal Island). Cinematography was by cameraman/director Henning Schellerup (Her Odd Tastes).
Warhol superstar Louis Waldon (Lonesome Cowboys) appeared in numerous nudies during the sixties including this one, a Sande N. Johnsen (The Twisted Sex) comedy from 1966 filmed in "partial" color. Waldon is Harry Lovelace, whose sex addiction takes a turn for the bizarre after his doctor prescribes a new sedative. With June Roberts (My Brother's Wife), Darlene Bennett from Take Me Naked, and Marlene White Slaves Of Chinatown Eck. Skin flick scorer Steve Karmen (Teenage Gang Debs) provided the soundtrack and Jerry Honey Denby handled the camerawork. So far, only less than a third of the film has turned up.
Sam Fuller's 1963 drama stars Peter The Crawling Hand Breck as a reporter who, helped by his stripper girlfriend (Constance Towers from Fuller's The Naked Kiss), has himself committed to a mental institution so he can ferret out clues to an unsolved murder. With Gene Evans from The Giant Behemoth, James The Killer Shrews Best, Hari Rhodes (This Rebel Breed), character actor Philip Ahn (Mao Tse Tung from Voodoo Heartbeat), and a "nympho" attack featuring Rachel The Girl From Tobacco Row Romen.
No auteurs here! It's a retitle of the 1943 compilation Confessions Of A Vice Baron, which itself was cribbed from older roadshow potboilers such as Smashing the Vice Trust (1937) and Mad Youth (1940). With wily Willy Castello (Race Suicide), Lona Slaves In Bondage Andre, and Betty Compson of Escort Girl. Castello's Lucky Lombardi, facing execution for his crimes, spills an episodic story that conveniently happens to be pasted together from older roadshow films.
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