Screenwriter Jim Macher (The Notorious Cleopatra) turns a Shakespeare classic and previous year's hit movie into a crotch opera in this 1969 Boxoffice International softcore comedy from exploitation vet Peter Perry Jr. (My Tale Is Hot). Harvey Shain (Office Love-In) is Romeo; his Juliet is Dee Lockwood (Maid Marian from The Erotic Adventures of Robin Hood). For star-crossed lovers theirs is a curiously non-comital relationship. Also featuring Orgy of the Dead dancer Mickey Jines, Steven Vincent from Drive-In Massacre and award-winning sci-fi author and Adam Film World founder William Rotsler as the Prince. 

"Experience Feel-A-Vision!" Canyon Cinema founder Paul Hunt (Wild, Free & Hungry) directed, co-produced, and filmed this oddball 1968 experiment with subjective visual perspective that alleged to make the viewer a participant in the soft porn action scenes, a grubby grab bag of nude photography studios, a cult's orgiastic initiation ritual, a dalliance with street whores, and, likely because the other producer was Bob Cresse, a whipping. Written by Ron The Toy Box Garcia, this apparently lost feature starred Cathy Adams (Love Camp 7) and Maria Lease from Sinthia, The Devil's Doll amid a cast of unknowns. Distributed with pride through Cresse's Olympic International Films.

Filmed entirely in Japan, the Italian-produced Violated Paradise visits various big-city iniquities via the perambulations of Tomako (Kazuko Mine from Blind Spots of the Female Body), a young villager seeking her fortune as a geisha in a Tokyo teeming with strip clubs and prostitution. Along the way she takes in a coastal fishing village where dwells a potential love interest and topless pearl divers. Based on the writings and documentary films of Italian ethnologist Fosco Maraini, this proto-mondo feature was produced and directed by Russian-born Marion Gering, whose 1930's directorial career at Paramount (Madame Butterfly with Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney, for one) was then a distant memory. With cringe-inducing narration read by jazz musician Paulette Girard (as Tomako) and mansplainer Tom Rowe.

The late Sande N. Johnsen (The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare) directed this spurious 1965 expose of a sex club called "The Secret Society" that keeps its dues-paying members well entertained with stag films and orgies, and, if needed, a secret abortion clinic. Patrons include New York nudie regulars Judy Adler (Satan's Bed) as well as Darlene Bennett from Hot Nights On the Campus along with five of her co-stars from the Barry Mahon short Instant Orgy (1967). Along with Al Ruban's The Sexploiters, it was one of two New York nudies distributed that year by Bob Cresse's Olympic International Films of Los Angeles. Its 1968 sequel in name only, Return of the Secret Society (aka Babette), survives, but Johnsen's original apparently does not.

Robert Walker Jr. from Hambone and Hillie stars in this brown acid tab of a movie as Jonas, a young drifter who is suddenly declared the prodigal son of a gas station owner (Rita Gilda Hayworth). He plays along, especially once he meets his hot "sister" (Mimsy Farmer from More). Also featuring character actor Ed Begley (The Dunwich Horror) in his last film and Ivano Staccioli from Women's Camp 119. Though set in middle America, it was filmed in Spain and France by French filmmaker Georges Lautner (Femmina). Based on the novel Sur la Route de Salina by Maurice Cury. The theme "Sunny Road to Salina" by Christophe was later borrowed for Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Let the Corpses Tan and a Quentin Tarantino film.

Based on a 1947 play by famed existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, La Putain Respectueuse is a low-budget French drama set in the U.S. deep south from the tag team of Charles Brabant and Marcello Pagliero. It stars Barbara Laage from Truffaut's Bed and Board as Lizzie McKay, a hooker who witnesses a racially-motivated killing and is then coerced into fingering an innocent black man as the culprit to protect the true killer, a senator's nephew. Also with Ivan Desny from Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun and jaunty Jacques Hilling (Clouzot's Diabolique). The 1957 English-language release was poorly received, partly due to shoddy, unconvincing dubbing, and is best remembered for the noir-ish cinematography from the masterful Eugen Schüfftan (Eyes Without A Face).

Cruise ship passengers Sandy (Jayne Mansfield) and Claire (Marie "The Body" McDonald from Getting Gertie's Garter) are both pregnant and unsure if their husbands are the fathers in this 1963 nudie cutie also starring co-producer Tommy Noonan (Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers) as Sandy's supposedly impotent husband, and Mansfield's real-life hubby Mickey Hargitay (Bloody Pit of Horror) as Claire's spouse. Also with Fritz Feld from Bringing Up Baby and Eddie Quillan from Wheeler and Woolsey's Girl Crazy. The sole feature film directed by actor King Donovan ("Twirly Boggs" from television's Bonanza), it's a slog when Mansfield - who bared everything legal in Playboy to promote the film - is not onscreen.

The late explorer and filmmaker Lewis Cotlow (Jungle Headhunters) produced and directed this 1961 proto-mondo movie filmed during an expedition in Papua, New Guinea. Released by sketchy Excelsior Pictures, Cotlow's film consists of him and his crew, accompanied by patrol officers and local cops, mingling with tribes living along the Sepik River in an attempt to document their "stone age" customs and rituals. The brazen grindhouse appeal of the film's campaign challenged its dubious ethnographic pretensions. Cotlow willed his collection, including this and other films, to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, which in turn donated them to the currently-shuttered Library of Congress.

Lewis Arquette from Tango & Cash began his film career by appearing in this 1965 Johnny-come-lately nudie about a Greenwich Village artist (Otto Franz Krone as himself) making rent by sketching - not painting, as the title and artwork imply - a series of naked models for publication in a monthly men's magazine. It also features Arquette's wife Brenda Denaut from Olga's House of Shame as well as her ex-husband Steve DeNaut, a musician who was later big in the L.A. theatre scene. Fan favorite Gigi Darlene (Artist's Studio Secrets) also makes the scene, as does Cavalier centerfold Darlene Hall. Not only is it the only film credit for Brigitte Bidet and most of the cast, but appears to be director Jerome Jacobsen's sole attempt as well.

Manson Distributing Corporation's 1963 release Prelude to Ecstacy was their shortened, English-dubbed version of the racy 1961 Finnish money-maker Kuu on vaarallinen ("The Moon is Dangerous"). Based on a 1942 Danish novel, it follows the disastrous chain of events triggered when a married, middle-aged businessman (prolific Finnish actor Esko Salmonen from Gas, Inspector Palmu!) invites a young hitchhiker (future candidate for Finnish parliament Liana Kaarina) to spend the night at his summer cabin. A print featuring nudity that had been excised for the 1961 theatrical showing was aired on Finnish television in 1972 to nearly half a million viewers. Prolific producer/director T.J. Särkkä (the 1956 Juha) made hundreds of films that remain unknown to English-speaking audiences.