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A documentary about the history of exploitation films that focuses on the careers of legendary producers David F. Friedman and Dan Sonney.
During the Prohibition era, Steve Desmond runs the biggest bootleg liquor distribution operation of Chicago's east side, while dealing with rival Fats Percelli and Temperance Union reformers raiding speakeasies, plus plenty of sex and violence.
Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown, along with scenes from and trailers for some of these films.
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
A private detective journeys to Africa to find a legenday white gorilla. The gorilla turns out to be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Filmed record of a burlesque show, with Sunny Knight ("The Golden Girl of the Golden West") as the headliner.
A revealing "behind the scenes" feature about glamour girls in Hollywood in startling scenes of EXCITEMENT
The devil emerges from the ground in a suburbanite's garden and tries to tempt him with a variety of naked women.
Man takes Hindu potion to make himself invisible.
Kissy Hill, the daughter of a notorious madam in 19th Century London, follows in her late mother's footsteps with prostitution in catering to various upper class gentlemen.
Reclining on her chaise lounge in a see-through robe, Lili St. Cyr decides she needs a bubble bath. In a gilded tub fit for Marie Antoinette, she bares all that the law will allow. Then she squeezes into an evening gown and mink coat to paint the town red.
An ex-vaudeville actor is working as the assistant to a doctor who has Frankenstein aspirations. The ex-vaudeville actor kills the doctor and decides to assume the identity of the dead physician.
Scalli is a gangster who manages women wrestlers as a front for his bookmaking, drug, and prostitution rackets. He trusts the wrong people and ends up trying to run away from both the police and mysterious mob boss Mr. Big, to whom he owes $35,000.
Two naturist girls spend an afternoon in the sun.