Blue Movie Monday: THE MARRIAGE MANUAL (1970)

May 26, 2014, 8:45 am

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"It is hoped that films such as this one, may one day be made available to ALL those who are about to embark upon marriage, or those already married and struggling under the unfair burdens of inadequate sexual understanding. The only thing that stands between you and compete sexual fulfillment, are the barriers of ignorance…The fences of prejudice that society has put up. The mere fact that you, as a consenting adult, will be allowed to view this motion picture…is proof that these fences are slowly but surely coming down. 'The Marriage Manual' brings to the screen in vivid and intimate detail…THE ART OF LOVE…THE ART OF SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.

It is our hope and intention that by exposing ignorance and social prejudice…we may relieve the atmosphere of frustration and despair. It is necessary to talk openly and honestly about sex. Make no mistake about it…sex is the cornerstone of your marriage.

We urge you to see this motion picture. It is our firm belief that both husband and wife can benefit greatly by the frank and honest instruction of sexual intercourse as shown in the 'The Marriage Manual.' It is a film you won’t forget, and it may well open up for you and your wife a full and rewarding sex life."

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May 28, 2014, 6:00 am

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From the maker of AFRICAN SAFARI...



TOUCH THE SKY (1974)

A film by
Ron Shanin

Produced by
R.E. Shanin Enterprises, Inc.

Associate Producer
Pierre Koep

Released by
Four-Wall Distributors, Inc.

MPAA rating: G

Release Date
October 23, 1974 (Salt Lake City, UT)

Greeley, CO - February 12, 1975

Movie Ad of the Week: ANGELS FROM HELL w/ THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL (1968)

June 1, 2014, 6:00 am

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By the time the double bill of ANGELS FROM HELL and THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL arrived in Chicago on November 1, 1968, both movies had already played throughout the country to widely different box-office results. ANGELS FROM HELL had its world premiere on May 29, 1968 at the Meadow Lark Drive-In in Wichita, KS, where it set the house record as well as the all-time city record, and continued to rake in dollars for American International Pictures everywhere it played, all summer long and into the fall. On the other hand, THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL opened in New York, Los Angeles, and several other major cities on June 5, 1968 -- a few hours before Robert Kennedy's assassination -- and played to mostly empty seats until relegated to second-feature status a few months later.

Movie Ad of the Week: YOUNG GANGS FROM WILDWOOD HIGH (1983)

June 8, 2014, 6:00 am

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Hoping to catch some of the runoff from FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH, which was still playing second-run theaters and drive-ins in other parts of the country but wouldn't reach pay-TV for another six months, Aquarius Releasing opened the Sam Sherman/Independent-International production TEAM-MATES (1978) under the title YOUNG GANGS FROM WILDWOOD HIGH on 23 screens in the New York-New Jersey area on February 18, 1983.

This wasn't the only face lift the movie underwent. Sherman had first come up with the title YOUNG GANGS in 1980...

...but was too late to rumble with THE WARRIORS, THE WANDERERS, BOULEVARD NIGHTS, WALK PROUD, SUNNYSIDE and other gang pics of the late '70s.

This was after the film had come out as TEAM-MATES, with two different ad campaigns, and died.

"It played the USA Network, surprise surprise, but I could never license it to home video," Sherman told us in 2009. "The basic idea was that it was about the first girl to play on a high school football team. It didn’t work. It really wasn’t good, and yet it had some fine qualities about it. But it was really mishandled, and I didn’t spend much time on it. I guess I blame myself for not being a good producer on it. I kind of let the young people working on that picture kind of run it and they just ran off with it. I had to stop it, rewrite it, and then go ahead and reshoot it, months of editing to make any sense out of it. The big deal of the picture was the discovery of James Spader and Estelle Getty, the first picture they ever made."

The Endangered List (Case File #143)

June 11, 2014, 6:00 am

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THREESOME (1969)

Produced and directed
by
Lee Beale
[Brandon Chase]

Written by
Kenneth Pressman

Photographed by
Mikael Salomon

Music by
David Whittaker

Technicolor

A presentation of
V.I. Productions, Ltd.

Released by
Howard Mahler Films, Inc.

Running time: 90 minutes
MPAA rating: X

STARRING

SYNOPSIS

THREESOME is the story of Ursula, a beautiful young American girl who meets a Danish fashion designer in New York, marries him and returns with him to his homeland, Denmark. Deep in Ursula’s psyche is buried a trauma which causes her to be emotionally unstable. Until her marriage to Martin, there were no obvious manifestations of her problem. But now, transferred to a totally new environment, in a country where she has no friends, where she can neither speak nor understand the language and where her husband’s business interests keep him from her side, she begins to slip deeper and deeper into an emotional abyss. She becomes involved in nightmarish affairs and finds herself unable to resist sexual advances from men or women. She is torn between what she knows to be right and a sexual morass she cannot control. On the brink of collapse, she enters a mental hospital outside Copenhagen, where she befriends Peter, a young Dane whose problems, though of a different nature from Ursula’s, are nonetheless as severe. Together they try to fight their problems but fail with a resounding crash as Peter dies from an overdose of drugs. His death is doubly overwhelming to Ursula because in her effort to help Peter she was attempting to strengthen her own emotions. Ursula runs away from the hospital in despair and into the arms of Kirsten, Europe’s top fashion model. Ursula finds what she feels is real happiness in this lesbian affair only to be shattered again, when she finds she’s pregnant from her stay with Peter at the hospital. What happens to her life with Kirsten? And what of the child still unborn?

THREESOME is a hard, unrelenting and totally realistic look at what can happen to human beings incapable of functioning under stress and strain.

Movie Ad of the Week: THE ASTROLOGER (1975)

June 15, 2014, 6:00 am

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Except for a VHS release in Australia some three decades ago and a single CBS Late Movie showing on June 23, 1980 (a Monday night), this whacked-out display of Irving Wallace envy from real-life con man turned TV astrologer turned Republic Pictures squatter Craig Denney hadn't been seen since its regional theatrical roll-out in the mid '70s -- until Temple of Schlock and the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) screened it at last year's Endangered Fest at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz! Recently, the AGFA used THE ASTROLOGER as the centerpiece of a successful Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for the digitization of their rarest 35mm film prints, so hopefully we'll be seeing a sparkling new digital transfer playing at Alamo Drafthouse cinemas and available on BD/DVD in the near future.

Oxnard, CA - January 14, 1976

New Orleans, LA - November 18, 1977

Biloxi, MS - December 9, 1977

Hattiesburg, MS - December 9, 1977

Blue Movie Monday: WET RAINBOW filmmaker revealed!

June 16, 2014, 6:00 am

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Two years ago in the Facebook group "Adult Films 1968-1988" we posted a newspaper article from 1993 in which Hollywood screenwriter Djordje Milicevic (VICTORY, RUNAWAY TRAIN, IRON WILL) "outs" himself as writer-director of the hardcore flicks WET RAINBOW and VAMPIRE LUST -- and then we forgot all about it. Yesterday, while searching through USB drives for an ad mat to run for this week's "Movie Ad of the Week," we found the article and realized we never posted it for our Temple readers. Here it is...

Movie Ad of the Week: THE SATANIST (1968)

June 22, 2014, 6:00 am

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We don't know much about THE SATANIST, a B&W horror nudie from Zoltan G. Spencer (THE HAND OF PLEASURE, TERROR AT ORGY CASTLE) that opened at the Park Pussycat Theater on June 21, 1968. What we do know is that it was released by Bob Cresse's Olympic International Films, it features the lovely Pat Barrington (ORGY OF THE DEAD, MANTIS IN LACE), and it probably hasn't been shown publicly since 1971. Never on video or DVD and considered lost for 40+ years, THE SATANIST will be screened in Philadelphia at Exhumed Films'Lost Film Festival on Sunday, July 20. Also being screened that day are SKATETOWN U.S.A., Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr in Freddie Francis' SON OF DRACULA (as YOUNG DRACULA), the rare 69 minute version of Andy Milligan's BLOOD, and #62 on our Endangered List, Alan Ormsby's THE GREAT MASQUERADE. Tickets for this event can be purchased here.

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Blue Movie Monday: THE SATANIST (1968)

June 23, 2014, 6:00 am

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Here's a first look at THE SATANIST, a long-lost B&W horror nudie from Zoltan G. Spencer (THE HAND OF PLEASURE, TERROR AT ORGY CASTLE) that will be screened in Philadelphia at Exhumed Films'Lost Film Festival on Sunday, July 20. Also being screened are SKATETOWN U.S.A., Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr in Freddie Francis' SON OF DRACULA (as YOUNG DRACULA), the rare 69 minute version of Andy Milligan's BLOOD, and Alan Ormsby's THE GREAT MASQUERADE, #62 on our Endangered List. Tickets for this event can be purchased here.

The Endangered List (Case File #144)

June 25, 2014, 6:00 am

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SECRET PLACES, SECRET THINGS is the story of eight people, four couples that find themselves at the Mayflower Hotel on a rainy summer night, each looking for a relationship that will add meaning to their lives.

SECRET PLACES, SECRET THINGS
(1971)

Starring

Erik Stern

Edward Blessington

Directed by

Gary Kent

Running time: 67 minutes

A

Grads Corporation

release

Once upon a time there was a young girl named Mary. She came to Los Angeles to go to college. While she was waiting to start the next semester, she moved into an old hotel and is earning money … in various ways. One way is babysitting for the Standfords. On this rainy evening, Mr. Standford drops in just to say “Hello.” Mr. Standford is fifty-five and has reached a point in his life where few things have meaning to him. Mary senses his needs and makes love. Unfortunately for Mr. Standford, this was not the answer to is problem.

Bill Wilson’s thing is to pursue every young girl he hires for his company until she succumbs. Linda had held him off as long as she could. This night she gave up and gives in. Once there, once in bed, she began to resent what had happened to her. She turns on her boss in such a way that only a woman’s mind could contrive.

Bob and Chris have been planning their night together for a long time. They have saved the money for the room. They have made up stories for their parents. They have everything they need for their night together except the diaphragm. She didn’t bring it. Being two resourceful young people, they find a solution to their problem.

You take a young college athlete named Gary that has been lying to his friends since high school about his relationships and conquests of women, and you take “today” something clicks in his head. He says to himself: “Something is wrong.” He finds a hooker. He goes to the hotel, he gets checked into a room, then he finds that he doesn’t know what to do. The girl, Alma, takes control of the situation and leads the young man, step by step, through a moment of bliss, a moment that only happens one time in the lifetime of each man.

Movie Ad of the Week: BED CAREER a.k.a. SWINGIN' MODELS (1973)

June 29, 2014, 6:00 am

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The West German sexploiter BETTKARRIERE (1972) -- directed by Ilja von Anutroff (a.k.a. Ralf Gregan) and starring Claus Tinney, Angelika Wehbeck and Ingrid Steeger -- opened in the New York area, sans an MPAA rating, as BED CAREER on May 4, 1973. The Daily News found the literal translation a bit too suggestive and advertised the film as NIGHT CAREERS instead (We'll post that ad as soon as we get it). Apparently neither title generated much box-office interest, because Hemisphere Pictures designed a whole new ad campaign and brought the film back to New York seven months later (December 7, 1973) as SWINGIN' MODELS.

Movie Ad of the Week: BLOOD CIRCUS (1987)

July 6, 2014, 6:00 am

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World Premiere - Wednesday, November 25, 1987 - Baltimore, MD

I've got chains, I've got charms!

(Santo Gold! Santo Gold!)

I've got bracelets for your arms!

(Santo Gold! Santo Gold!)

Money back guarantee!

(Santo Gold! Santo Gold!)

Five-year warranty!

(Santo Gold! Santo Gold!)
We know you're going to like it!
(Santo Gold! Santo Gold!)
24-karat Santo Gold!

Blue Movie Monday: BIJOU (1972)

June 30, 2014, 6:00 am

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Now available on DVD from Vinegar Syndrome...

Acclaimed director Wakefield Poole’s second feature, the surreal and trippy BIJOU, set a new standard for explicit cinema when it opened in 1972. The film concerns a construction worker (Bill Harrison) who witnesses a car accident and pockets the female victim’s purse, in which he discovers her invitation to a club named Bijou. There, he enters a strange erotic world where dark fantasies becomes reality. A fever dream blending the erotic and the divine in equal parts, BIJOU is a psychosexual puzzle that rewards multiple viewings.

Scanned at 2K from the original 16mm elements and fully restored, this new version of BIJOU finally allows the film to be seen in all its original visual splendor.

Directed by Wakefield Poole
Starring Bill Harrison [Ronnie Shark], Cassandra Hart, Lydia Black, Robert Lewis, Peter Fisk [Peter Schneckenburger], Bruce Williams [Bruce Shenton], Bill Cable, and Rocco Passalini

1972 / Color / 75 minutes / AR: 1.33:1

Dual-Layer DVD-9 | Region Free | MONO
+ Original Theatrical Trailer
+ Director’s Audio Commentary & Video Introduction
+ Video Interview w/ Author Linda Williams
+ Video Interview w/ Wakefield Poole + Unused Audition Footage

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Blue Movie Monday: MARILYN AND THE SENATOR (1975)

July 7, 2014, 6:00 am

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Now available on DVD from Vinegar Syndrome...

William Margold stars as The Senator, who agrees to impregnate a beautiful CIA agent played by Nina Fause. As complications ensue with the senator's ability to 'perform,' his wife and associates become increasingly suspicious of his affairs, resulting in myriad bizarre plot twists and revelations. Originally released at 128 minutes with an intermission and advertised as MARILYN AND THE SENATOR, PART I & II, the film was later cut and re-titled SWINGING SENATORS. Vinegar Syndrome presents, for the first time in a home video format, the full length director's cut, scanned from 35mm camera negatives!

Directed by Carlos Tobalina
Starring Miss Nina Fause, Mr. William Margold, Miss Heather Leight, Sharon Thorpe, Bill Kaye [William Kirschner], Miss Liz Renay, Mr. Erroff Lynn, and Zarina Gullian [Serena]

1975 / Color / 128 minutes / AR 1.85:1

Extra Features: Audio commentary with star & co-writer William Margold / Original theatrical trailer

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Movie Ad of the Week: BLACK LOVER w/ THE HOT GANG (1975)

July 13, 2014, 6:00 am

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May 14, 1975: Both the Daily News and New York Post refuse to run advertising for a double bill of NIGGER LOVER and THE HOT BOX, so sub-distributor Terry Levene gives them this ad instead.

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Blue Movie Monday: JUNGLE BLUE (1978)

July 14, 2014, 6:00 am

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Now available on DVD from Vinegar Syndrome...

From director Carlos Tobalina comes one of the strangest hybrids of exploitation sub-genres ever released to the unsuspecting public. Combining the late 70s jungle movie craze with crime thriller and copious amounts of X rated action, JUNGLE BLUE tells the story of a group of sinister explorers hunting for fortune in the jungles of South America. Along the way they meet a tree-swinging wild man, his sex-crazed companion gorilla, and hoards of scantily clad natives.

Never released on video in the US, JUNGLE BLUE has been restored from 35mm camera negatives and is being presented uncut on DVD for the first time!

Directed by Troy Benny [Carlos Tobalina]
Starring Nina Fause, Jose Ferraro, Annette Haven, Kathy Silverman [Candida Royalle] and Bigg John [David Pinney]
1978 / Color / 79 minutes / AR: 1.85:1

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Movie Ad of the Week: INSIDE LAURA ANTONELLI (1979)

July 20, 2014, 6:00 am

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Big thanks to Raleigh Bronkowski of Screen 13 for sending us this week's ad in response to a Mystery Movie post we ran a couple of months ago. INSIDE LAURA ANTONELLI, which played U.S. theaters in 1979 to cash in on the higher profile Antonelli imports released in the States the same year (THE INNOCENT, WIFEMISTRESS, THE DIVINE NYMPH), is another re-titling of Massimo Dallamano's LE MALIZIE DI VENERE (1969), which had already played stateside as DEVIL IN THE FLESH, FIRE IN THE FLESH, and SCHOOL GIRL TEMPTATIONS. The ad is from the film's opening in the Detroit area on November 2, 1979.

Blue Movie Monday: LITTLE ANNIE FRANNY (1971)

July 21, 2014, 6:00 am

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This animated knock-off of Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's adult comic strip "Little Annie Fanny" opened in New York on October 21, 1971 and was promptly sued out of existence by Playboy for copyright infringement.

The Endangered List (Case File #145)

July 25, 2014, 6:00 am

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DIRTYMOUTH (1970)

Starring

Bernie Travis (Lenny Bruce)

Courtney Sherman (Iris McCabe)

Wynn Irwin (Lou Hamilton)

Sam Teardrop (Marlene St. Clair)

Harry Spillman (Lewis)

Peter Clune (Mr. Murdock)

Eleanor Cody Gould (Mrs. McCabe)

Bob Allen (Judge – Philadelphia)

Gene Wood (Judge – New York)

Chris Gampel (Defense Attorney)

John Becher (Harry)

Fred Knapp (Defense Attorney – New York)

Jim Thorne (Assistant District Attorney)

Reid Cruickshanks (Brady)

Frank Feda (Ed Newton)

Court Benson (Johnson)

Fuddle Bagley (Comic)

Herb Carter (Smith)

Phil Carter (Gerber)

Horatio Fuller (Tipstaff)

Edward Grace (Capote)

Michael Zettler (Policeman – Philadelphia)

Arthur French (Policeman – Philadelphia)

Dorothy Claire (Mrs. McHenry)

Alice Yourman (Mrs. Amperian)

Gladys Lane (Mrs. Gerber)

Frankie Mann (Himself)

Bob Leslie (Himself)

Written, Produced, Directed

by

Herbert S. Altman

Executive Producer

Claude Schlanger

Photography by

Bert Spielvogel

Edited by

Edna Paul

Music by

Manny Vardi

and

Lenny Hambro

Songs by

The Free Design

Sound

Marvin Dworkin

Makeup

J.J. Jiras

Associate Producers

Alfred Gilbert

and

Allan Altman

Color by Movielab

A

Superior Films

production

Released by

Howard Mahler Films

New York opening: May 19, 1971

Re-released by

The Fanfare Corporation

in 1974

New York re-release: December 13, 1974

Running time: 102 minutes

MPAA rating: R

Thanks to John Charles

Movie Ad of the Week: HANGUP / SUPER DUDE (1975)

July 27, 2014, 6:00 am

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THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER...KISS OF DEATH...THE HOUSE ON 92ND STREET...13 RUE MADELEINE...CALL NORTHSIDE 777...THE DESERT FOX...NIAGARA ...GARDEN OF EVIL...NORTH TO ALASKA... THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER...NEVADA SMITH...TRUE GRIT...

Henry Hathaway made a lot of films during his 50+ years in Hollywood but only one of them played ‘The Deuce’ under two different titles for almost a decade and then disappeared from sight: HANGUP (1974) a.k.a. SUPER DUDE, the Oscar nominated director’s final film, which hasn’t been seen in New York since it played as the co-feature to THE FINAL TERROR at the 42nd Street Apollo Theatre in May 1984!

A homicide investigation centered around poisoned heroin puts black rookie cop Ken Ramsey (William Elliott) back in touch with his high school crush, the beautiful Julie Turner (Marki Bey), now a junkie prostitute. With his job on the line, Ramsey sets out to destroy Richards (Michael Lerner), the drug-dealing pimp responsible for hooking Julie on smack and turning her out.

After an aborted release through Warner Brothers in 1974 and a disappointing run at New York's infamous Cine 42 in late January of '75, the film was sold off to Dimension Pictures, who rechristened it SUPER DUDE and brought it back to the Big Apple on June 13, 1975 with BOSS NIGGER as its second feature in most theaters.