Love Is Where It's At director Sidney Knight's 1970 sleaze-a-thon The Debauchers depicted the making of a snuff film five years before Alan Shackleton's infamous promotion of an otherwise-un-releasable horror cheapie from the Findlays. Poor, unsuspecting May (porn star Tina Russell from Sleepy Head) answers an ad for a modeling assignment, only to learn too late that it was placed by a wealthy pervert (Claude Rube) with other plans. What's worse, her boyfriend Jack (Russell's then-husband Jason) will do anything for money. Also with Daniel Harin (the physician in Sexual Customs in Scandinavia) and someone hiding behind the credit "Thomas Strangle." Distributed by Sam Lake Enterprises.
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"Allergic to women? A naked complex!" Cuban emigré Dolores Carlos (Doris Wishman's Hideout in the Sun) was executive producer and star of this inept nudie about a race car driver (Roy Savage from Intimate Diary of Artists' Models) who panics in the presence of women. As so often happens, a suicide attempt results in his landing on a remote island (actually Tampa, Florida's Sunshine Naturist Club) inhabited solely by nude women. The latter include Christy Foushee (Honeymoon of Horror) among less familiar, uh, faces. Director Ron Mart (Indiscreet Stairway) was also behind 1966's baffling The Hot Pearl Snatch, which inspired a Cramps tune.
Filmed in L.A., the 1974 softcore roughie Pretty Wet Lips was produced and directed by the possibly pseudonymous Carl Stanfill for producer/director Chris Warfield's Lima Productions. Sickos Chickie (Eve Orlon from Ensenada Pickup) and her uncredited bestie Buster kidnap and molest a schoolgirl before staging a rampaging home invasion in the burbs. It's all told to a psychiatrist, and depicted in full-frontal flashback, by corrupted Chickie and two of the duo's victims. With German porn star Brigitte Maier (Sensations) among a cast of mostly unknowns.
John Lamb, who began his feature film career with 1962's The Mermaids Of Tiburon and capped it off with Sex Freaks (1974), promoted his She Did It His Way! (1968) by citing a Supreme Court ruling that his own The Raw Ones (1965) had been one of the first to exploit. It starred 1967 Miss Nude Universe and future bodybuilding champion Kellie Everts (real name: Rasa Sofija Jakstas) and an equally naked supporting case of pageant hopefuls captured by "hidden cameras" as they submit to physical examinations prior to the competition. Everts later found religion and became the Stripper for God before directing and starring in female domination videos such as Stand on Your Man (1989).
1960's The Nudist Story was a U.K. "nature" study filmed (as For Members Only) around London and Hertfordshire by Ramsey Herrington, whose only other feature was the neo-noir Compelled from the same year. With Shelly Martin (victim of Indio's revenge in For A Few Dollars More) and Alastair Hunter from Alexander Mackendrick's Whisky Galore! It was retitled and paired with Werner Kunz' 1958 Swiss nudist colony tour Lust For The Sun by Silver Screen Film Distributors, Inc.
Barry Mahon's 1966 revenge saga about a NYC prostitution ring forced to wage war with a criminal gang intent on stealing their profits shuffles skin and sadism with lengthy bouts of inane conversation between "Madame Sue" and her shapely staff. The latter include sisters Darlene and Dawn Bennett from Doris Wishman's My Brother's Wife as well as (unrelated) Rita Nude In Charcoal Bennett. No award-winning performances here, but voyeurs are delivered the expected eyeful and nostalgia buffs will devour the vintage backdrops of Times Square and Coney Island.
Former Okeefenokee Swamp general manager Dave DaLie dreamed up and stars in this bare-bones 1960 jungle adventure made in Guatemala by German-born Mexican actor Fernando Wagner (The Wild Bunch), who also appears. DaLie is "great white hunter" Mr. Samson (!), whose sultry sweetheart Morena (Angélica Morales) is whisked away by ritual-crazy jungle dwellers who practice human sacrifice. This is revealed in an extended flashback featuring actual members of the Vicuni tribe along with California's Linda Cordova (1961's The Long Rope) as their curiously placid victim. A heftier DaLie later wrote and appeared with songster Baker Knight in the southern drive-in curio Swamp Country (1966).
AKA The Loves of Cynthia, this 1972 English-language soft core feature filmed in Denmark and the U.K. was directed by Eduardo Fuller (The Sinful Dwarf), who also directed for Spanish television. Cynthia (Maureen Flanagan from I Am A Groupie), a washed-up model and thespian, plots intrigue to steal her sister's multi-millionaire hubby (Paul Kirby from Fanny Hill Meets Lady Chatterley). It doesn't go well. Also with Gertie Jung and Jeanne Darville from Relations and Preben Mahrt (Mac Ahlberg's Bel Ami).
Anti-Nazi resistance fighter and Jean Cocteau paramour Jean Marais (La Belle et la Bête) starred in this 1957 trifle originally released as Amour de poche. Agnés Laurent (The Twilight Girls) is Monette, lab assistant to Marais' Professor Jerome, who resides in his jacket pocket after drinking a serum that shrinks her - but not her clothing - to the size of a candy bar. Geneviève Page (Belle de Jour) is the prof's scandalized fiancée. Filmmaker Pierre Kast (The Season for Love), also a former freedom fighter, wrote for Cahiers du cinéma in addition to directing dozens of films.
Former child entertainer Torben Bille (Agent 69 In The Sign Of Scorpio) attacks the title role of this 1973 Danish/American sickie, directed with queasy panache by Eduardo Fuller (The Loves of Cynthia) for Boxoffice International, with ghoulish gusto. A sadistic dwarf and his depraved mother (Clara Keller, who also sings) operate a brothel for perverts in the attic of their boarding house, using heroin to control their kidnapped victims. With Lizbeth Olsen, later in Mac Ahlberg's hardcore Bel Ami, and Werner Hedman (Room 13) as "Santa Claus." A hardcore version entitled Dvergen (The Dwarf) was issued in Denmark.
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