The late Nick Millard, son of Forty Thieves' S. S. "Steamboat" Millard (1927's Is Your Daughter Safe?) and director of the notorious .357 Magnum, followed in dad's footsteps with this 1965 provocation, his third exploitation feature. Narrated by future porn director Alan Colberg (Tapestry of Passion), the film's ostensible subject is female sexual perversion, though Millard thoughtfully includes predictable props germane to his genre: leather boots, masks, black gloves.
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A Texas-set courtroom drama from the one and only Larry Buchanan (Strawberries Need Rain), Under Age (1964) charts the trial of a woman (Annabelle Weenick from Don't Look In The Basement) accused of provoking her 14-year-old daughter (Judy Adler from The Sin Syndicate) into having sex with a Mexican boy, also a minor. With Patrick Cranshaw from Hip, Hot & 21 and George Edgley repeating his role as the presiding judge from Buchanan's earlier courtroom opus Free, White and 21. Buchanan co-wrote the script with Harold Hoffman (The Black Cat), who administered a lie detector test in the director's The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde. Featuring the hillbilly tune "Boil Them Cabbage Down."
Director John Hayes (Grave of the Vampire) directed this 1969 feature about a schlub named Roger (Will Gary from Barbara) who, recently split from his wife and saddled with crippling alimony payments, relocates to a condo stocked with gullible and horny divorceés. To supplement his dwindling income, Roger convinces the naughty neighbors to stage a fetishistic sex show for paying customers. The cast includes Joy Kahl (Hayes' Help Wanted Female), Chris Mathis from Thar She Blows!, Kathy Williams (The Babysitter), and Tony Vorno from Hayes' The Hang Up.
Philadelphia's Stanley Brasloff (Two Girls For A Madman) directed this dark portrait of child-woman Jamie (Marcia Forbes in her only film) who suffers from a disturbing attachment to the childhood toys gifted by her absent whoremonger father (Peter Lightstone). Fran Warren (Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd) is Jamie's mother and Bill Landis fave Harlan Cary Poe (Stigma) portrays her understandably confused husband.
The final feature from Texas porn purveyor Whit Boyd's Crescent International, the 1969 Party Girls was directed by Boyd regular Ron Scott (Scarlet Négligée) and starred Adarainne from Dracula (The Dirty Old Man), Judy The Wildest! Farr, and Byron Lord from Larry Buchanan's Mars Needs Women. The plot: four suburban housewives turn their weekly bridge party into a soft core orgy with their new boyfriends. Director Scott cameos as a cop in this lost Lone Star spoof of suburbia's seamier side.
Prolific Argentine director Emilio Vieyra's contribution to the world of weird cinema was cemented with la venganza del sexo (1969), known stateside as The Curious Dr. Humpp, but his earlier Placer sangriento (1965) fails to reach its bizarre heights, somehow squandering a script rife with heroin injections, weird organ music, and a killer in a pug-ugly mask. Jack The Flesh Eaters Curtis wrote the haphazardly dubbed English dialog. A truncated version entitled Feast of Flesh was paired with Rene Cardona's Night Of The Bloody Apes by Jerand Films for a 1972 U.S. theatrical run.
Barry The Dead One Mahon's 1965 New York nudie rolled out the flimsy framing device of a "glamor" photographer (Bernie Allen from Raging Bull) perusing his portfolio of pulchritude while recalling, and revealing through flashbacks, the dermatological details of each session. Budget-minded Mahon apparently made copious use of scrap footage from other projects in assembling this trifle and it shows. The welcome presence of Bennett sisters Darlene and Dawn (International Smorgas-Broad) along with Germany's Gigi Darlene (Bad Girls Go To Hell) help offset the monotonous pacing and mind-numbing narration.
Future porn star Jennifer Welles (Honey Pie) is Dilys, a counselor for an Esalen-type encounter group whose fiendish former lover (David Gale from The Reanimator) blackmails her into aiding his sordid scheme involving another group member (Laura Cannon from Forced Entry). The 1971 feature was written and directed by Allen Savage (Submission) and released by Chelly Wilson's Chancellor Films of Times Square. All that survives is a trailer.
Boston-based theater owner and film distributor Steve Prentoulis changed the adjective for his release of 1965's "mondo" feature Primitive London from U.K. filmmaker Arnold Louis Miller (Nudes of All Nations), co-written by Miller with brothers Derek and Donald Ford (Gutter Girls). Subjects include the battle between mods and rockers, strip clubs, mate swapping, goldfish surgery, and an interview with chart topper Billy J. Kramer. Also featuring British band The Zephyrs and a swinging soundtrack by Basil Kirchin.
Cinematographer Dwayne Avery (Booby Trap) co-wrote, directed, filmed, and edited this 1969 feature for Harry Novak's Boxoffice International starring actor/composer Vic Lance (Mantis In Lace) as computer nerd Scott, who seduces women by posing as a hitch-hiking sailor and then taking them to his motel room for sex and Polaroids. Among his conquests are Dee Lockwood from Starlet!, Karen Sisters In Leather Thomas, and Meri McDonald (Lady Godiva Rides). Antoinette Maynard (Suckula) is his meddlesome sister. Released in Germany as Spicy Motel.
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