Public Domain Movies
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Adults test the sexual waters in the do anything 70's.
Running Time: 91 mins Color
Starring: Jo Ann Harris
Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the mind of would-be rapists
Running Time: 83 mins Color
Starring: Richard Hatch, Susanne Benton, Doug Chapin
Mature, stable Jesse, his nutty and impulsive longtime best friend Pat, Jesse's caring fiancé Kathy, and Pat's fragile gal pal Jo Ella all decide to embark on a cross country road trip in a Winnebago prior to facing the challenges of encroaching adulthood. Relationships between everyone become increasingly strained as things take a turn for the worse and the journey turns into a severely bum trip for everyone involved.
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Starring: John Carradine
Hosted by John Carradine, this tape is a compilation of scenes from and previews for various exploitation films.
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Starring: Roberta Collins
Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women--along with the help of two men--plot an escape. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.")
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Starring: Helga Line
A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the house whose rites seem to centre somewhat on large-scale sexual congress
Running Time: 93 mins Color
Starring: Alain Patrick, Barbara Mills, Inga Maria
Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart when he has an extramarital fling with an actress and the local Los Angeles vice cops close in to make a bust.
Running Time: 60 mins Color
Starring: John Alderman, Sharon Kelly, Lois Lane, Paxton Quigley, John Reigrod, Lyllan Torena, Becky Sharpe
In 'Live Action', young psychiatrist Henry Carstairs moves into an apartment building filled with lonely, sex starved women. This soap is interrupted several times by sexy ads.
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Starring: Vicente Parra
A young man, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother's fiancee and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to the butchery...
Running Time: 83 mins Color
Starring: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Alix Talton, Tônia Carrero
Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
Running Time: 80 mins Black & White
Starring: Daisy and Violet Hilton (actual Siamese twins), Allen Jenkin.
The conjoined twins Violet Hilton and Daisy Hilton, also seen in Tod Browning's classic Freaks and the smarmy Slash of the Knife, star in this interesting melodrama about love, betrayal, and murder. They play Vivian and Dotty Hamilton, joined-at-the-spine singers in a vaudeville show managed by the unscrupulous Ted Hinckley (Allen Jenkins). Hinckley pays a sharpshooter named Andre Pariseau 100 dollars a week to date Dotty as a publicity stunt. When the pair are married, Dotty's desire to be surgically separated from her sister leads the panicked Violet to shoot Pariseau dead, and she stands trial (with Dotty, naturally) for murder. Despite the exploitative ad campaign, this is a well-done melodrama presenting a realistic (?) situation in an engaging way. Viewers may still get the feeling that they might go to Hell for watching it, but at least it avoids the sleazy implications of Slash of the Knife. The British-born Hilton sisters were exploited in real life from a very early age, with their mother pimping them to various carnival freak shows around Britain and the U.S. Aside from their film and nightclub work, they were best known for an actual trial in which they were named as "the other women" in a divorce case. Their Pittsburgh hotel went belly-up in the 1950s and they ran a fruit-stand in Florida until they died in 1964 at the ages of 56. The first, and almost certainly last, movie to star Siamese twins, Violet and Daisy Hilton, vaudeville performers and co-stars of "Freaks", dance and sing in this turgid tearjerker of love and betrayal.
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Starring: Candace Rialson
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
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Starring: Bill Johnson
Erotic version of the classic fairy tale.
Running Time: 87 mins Color
Starring: Troy Donahue, Ross Hagen, Hoke Howell
Click: The Calendar Girl Killer is a thriller that probes the inner sanctum of the mind of a psychotic killer as he uses the world of big fashion photography for his sadistic playground.
Running Time: 59 mins Black & White
Hollywood's first subject for a compilation film was none other than the guard-your-kids genre of the 1930's. Catch highlights from "Mad Youth", "Smashing the Vice Trust", and other camp classics in this "That's Entertainment" of exploitation.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: Diane Sinclair
Campy look at venereal disease has a rich young man's life destroyed after a night of pleasure.
Running Time: 71 mins Black & White
Starring: Gary Clarke, Marlo Ryan, Danny Logan, Dick Gering, Sue Randall.
Teen couple decide to get married against their parents' wishes, and subsequently get involved with gangsters and drugs. Produced by O'Dale Ireland. Dir. O'Dale Ireland
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Starring: Gina Lollobrigida
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Running Time: 62 mins Black & White
Starring: Doris Weston, Maurice Murphy, Terry Walker, Helen MacKellar, Theodore von Eltz, Morgan Wallace, Marjorie Reynolds.
Wayward girl grows up to become a juvenile judge and meets up with the child she gave up for adoption, now a teenage punk. Dir. Nick Grinde
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Starring: Ursula Buchfellner
The story is set amongst jungle tribes that live in fear of the devil. Laura Crawford is a model who gets kidnapped by a gang of thugs whilst working in South America. They take her into the jungle and demand a huge ransom. Laura is guarded by some ridiculous looking native who calls himself "The Devil" and has to go through all manner of unpleasantries until the gang get their ransom. Chained maidens are offered in supplication and the devil demonstrates eating pussy in a grossly excessive literal manner. Enter Peter Weston, the devil hunter, who goes into the jungle in true Indiana Jones style to try and rescue her.
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Starring: Warhawk Tanzania
Warhawk Tanzania plays an urban afro American, who hates the gang warfare all around him. In desperation, Tanzania summons a demon from the subway system to purge his neighborhood of punks. Unfortunately, the demons are uncontrollable, resulting in the deaths of several innocent people.
Running Time: 94 mins Color
Starring: Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, James Stacy
A photographer for a men's magazine is disturbed by a recurring dream he has that he is killing his models by various gruesome means. Then he discovers that his city is being terrorized by a slasher who is stalking and murdering women on the streets. He begins to suspect that he may actually be the killer.
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Victor Izay, Julia Calda, Ave Lezli
Three sex researchers discuss their strangest cases.
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Starring: Capucine, Judy Matheson
Follows a well-to-do publisher and family man who begins to receive severed body parts in the mail two years after his mistress committed suicide. Along with one of these bloody parcels is a letter of blackmail from the dead woman's former lesbian lover, who seeks vengeance.
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Starring: Martha Chapin
Mae Miller wants the finer things in life, luxuries that she feels her husband, a doctor, cannot provide for her. She begins to gamble in order to ring in spending money for herself, but winds up deep in debt. To pay her dues, she is reduced to the shame of selling herself.
Running Time: 72 mins Black & White
Starring: Arline Judge, Roger Clark, Robin Raymond, Dorothy Burgess, Sid Melton.
A girl's reformatory is the setting as a teacher tries to to help a detective send a murderer to prison.
Running Time: 88 mins Color
Starring: Don Johnson
The Sex manifesto of the free love generation.At the coed Harrad College the students experience a college policy of sexual freedom. The students are taught classes on the subject, and they experiment themselves in this very 70s production. Melanie Griffith, at age 14, appears as an extra.
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Two kinky female roommates have odd habits. One is a hooker who beats up and robs her customers after she has sex with them. The other one takes money from men to perform stripteases for them at her place. One day she and a customer, Mr. Gregory, drop some LSD together and he begins to tell her a story that makes the girls realize this time they may have more on their hands than they bargained for
Running Time: 93 mins Color
Starring: Simone Griffeth, Steve Marachuk, Bryan Marshall
Wife of successful NZ businessman is seduced by fellow American after "chance" meeting in park. However, Greg has more than love-making with the beautiful Christine in mind.
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Starring: John Ericson
World War II: Allied Command learns that in 60 days three Japanese generals and an admiral party at a bordello on a tiny Philippine island. It's fortified and hard to attack, so a creative, cynical major gets the assignment to figure something else. With the help of Paco, a Filipino guerrilla leader, the major devises a plan to put four women assassins among the prostitutes. He must recruit and train them, convince his general that an unarmed woman can best a man, and get them on the island. The rest is up to them. An imprisoned killer, a nurse with a fatal disease, a chippie on the lamb from the mob, and a Filipina whom the Japanese assaulted are his team. Can they do it?
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker.
Because of his parent's neglect, a basically good-hearted kid joins the mob and commits murder. Written by Harry L. Fraser. Dir. Sam Newfield
Running Time: 74 mins Black & White
Starring: ith Dan O'Herlihy, Peggy Castle, Phyllis Coates, Tom Kennedy and Gerald Mohr.
A stranger visits a New York bar and convinces the patrons that the H-bomb has been unleashed on America by the Reds. Albert Zugsmith produced this apocalyptic epic.
Running Time: 86 mins Color
Starring: Don Edmondson, Reginald H. Farmer
This action adventure features the skill of one amazing hero.
Running Time: 69 mins Black & White
Starring: Corey Allen, Rebecca Welles, Richard Bakalyan
Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim.
Running Time: 88 mins Color
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Luan Peters
A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil!
Running Time: 35 mins Black & White
A newspaper reporter investigates a strange cult living in the American Southwest who worship pain. Supposedly based on a fact. Actual footage of Penitentes - a sect of Catholic religious fanatics who engage in self-flagellation
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Photographed in two-strip Technicolor, it offers a vivid glimpse into a culture that has changed irretrievably since 1933. Filmed on the island of Bali with an all native cast. The eternal triangle is interspersed with authentic native dancing and religious rites.
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Rising young male movie star, bizarrely preoccupied with death and involved with his older-woman dramatic coach, meets an innocent sweet-young-thing
Running Time: 90 mins Color
Starring: Christine Moore, Gary Warner, Marina Taylor
A woman is haunted by flashbacks of her dead mother and visions of dead people floating.
Running Time: 74 mins Color
Starring: Walter Stocker, Audrey Caire, Carlos Rivas
Hitler's Brain is saved by Nazi madmen, and is giving orders on a small tropical island!
Running Time: 96 mins Color
Starring: Kim Lankford, James Daughton, Susan Player
School's out and it's time for a summer of fun, mischief and love for various characters on Malibu Beach.
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Starring: Gareth Hunt
A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.
Running Time: 51 mins Black & White
Starring: Bill Woods
An ex-vaudeville actor is the assistant to a doctor with Frankenstein aspirations. After murdering the doctor, the would-be actor finds it necessary to assume the identity of the dead physician. Edgar Allen Poe's THE BLACK CAT is written into the storyline. All those nasty things people really wanted to see in the deadening 1930s: child birth, heroin addiction, eyeballs popping out of cats' heads.
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This uncommonly explicit sex education film begins where many other movies end, with a pair of lovers sharing a kiss upon getting married. Its narrator explains that in vintage Hollywood movies, couples joined in matrimony are alleged to "live happily ever after." However, such stories are little more than fairy tales. The reality of marriage is something else altogether. Everyday married life eventually becomes a plodding routine, stripped of all romance and passion. One of the reasons for this is "sexual incompatibility." Back when this film was produced, discussions about sex were taboo in the home and school. Young people were expected to remain sexually innocent until their wedding nights. They "knew nothing about the problems of physical adjustment that will confront them" as they became accustomed to married life. This film serves as a visual textbook which educates viewers on human sexuality. Every aspect of the subject is touched on, from male and female anatomy, sexual functions and development to the manner in which a persons sex life affects his or her overall health. The language is straightforward. There is plenty of male and female nudity, graphic and full-frontal. Finally and remarkably, several actual births are shown on camera. This frank, no-holds-barred film remains as provocative today as when it was first produced.
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Hypnosis In the tradition of "Mated", these thinly disguised medical/educational films deal with the frank subject of sex and childbith form a clincal, yet revealing viewpoint.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Noel Madison, Lila Lee, Norma Trelvar, Snub Pollard, Arthur Singley.
Big city mobsters capitalize on civil unrest by setting up a profit-oriented, secret society based on religious and racial intolerance. Dir. Victor Halperin
Running Time: 68 mins Black & White
Starring: Marion Michael, Adrian Hoven, Friedrich Joloff
Liane, the white jungle goddess, encounters some of her rich relatives from Hamburg who have come to search for her, but she is soon kidnapped by a ring of slave traders.
Running Time: 98 mins Color
Starring: Eric Roberts, Joe Pantoliano, Tia Carrere
A seedy nightclub owner recruits eight violent gangsters for an elaborate heist, but when they all begin to compare notes, they find they're pawns in a dangerous game of doublecross.
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Starring: Annamaria Clementi
Two thieves rob a drug store and decide to hide out in a porn shop.
Running Time: 63 mins Black & White
Starring: Barbara Kent, Don Dillaway, William Farnum, Dorothy Granger, Doris Eaton, Marion Quigley.
Film warns of the consequences of certain girls who "go to far"! Raise your daughters right! Dir. John Noble
Running Time: 60 mins Black & White
Starring: Jack Webb
Federally funded propaganda film unintentionally riotous fun. Jack Webb narrates the tale of an ordinary American town and its life as a Communist satellite, with everyone becoming emotionless automations. AKA The Commies Are Coming, the Commies Are Coming.
Running Time: 45 mins Black & White
Starring: Helen Foster, Virginia Roye, Grant Withers.
Exploitation classic as a wholesome young girl sinks into a life of prostitution and degredation after reading racy romance novels!
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Starring: Helen Foster
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
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Outrageous, straightforward educational shorts from the 1950's and 1960's, featuring "Joan Avoids Cold", "Candy Is Healthy," "Dating Do's and Don'ts" and "Fun with Speech Songs."
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Starring: Alberto Moravia
Here's a National Geographic style documentary that's alternately exploitive and informative. The film presents a wide variety of ways that humans interact with nature. It depicts the actual footage of a careless man (Pit Dernitz) leaving the safety of his car to film lions close up and ends up being their dinner. Other highlights include natives humping the ground in hopes of bringing life to the land, various big game hunting and last but not least naked hippies.
Running Time: 87 mins Color
Starring: Jeffrey Byron, Gary Imhoff, Dennis Quaid
Four students open a bogus sex clinic for cheap thrills and then are amazed to see it blossom into a profitable business.
Running Time: 92 mins Color
Starring: Karen Black, Tony Lo Bianco, Arlene Golonka
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
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Starring: Deborah Walley, Marvin Kaplan
Trapped in a cave, five men cut the arm off of another companion in order to ward off starvation. After they are saved, their victim seeks revenge on them one by one.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Alan Baxter
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
Running Time: 93 mins Color
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Dorothy Keller, Fabian Dean
The fall of a blonde, Mansfield, from innocence to prostitution. Mansfield died before the movie was completed.
Running Time: 74 mins Black & White
Starring: Paulette Goddard, George Nader, Eduard Franz
The aging Ahab, king of Israel, comes under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming pagan woman named Jezebel and, against the advice of his advisers and the prophet Elijah, marries her. Her plan to introduce her pagan idols to Israel angers God, who decides to wreak vengeance on Israel.
Running Time: 104 mins Color
Starring: Charine Chan, Chi Fai Chan, Shu Gei Chan
The film centres around four cases in Cameroon involving violence against women. It shows women seeking justice and effecting change on universal human interests issues. It also shows strong and positive images of women and children in Cameroon. Portrays the lives of women in children in Cameroon and living by the Islamic law (Sharia law.) In addition, the cases that are examined within the film particularly deal mainly with the inequality of women and children. Specifically one of the children was beaten with a cane and the aunt was charged with child abuse.
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Compilation of educational, sex-oriented films from the 1950's, including "VD: See Your Doctor," "Know For Sure," and "Social Sex Attitude in Adolescents."
Running Time: 88 mins Color
Starring: Tom Selleck, Phyllis Davis, Marta Kristen
It's every man and woman for himself on an island where convicted murderers are dumped, rather than kept in prison.
An exploitation film when being an exploitation film was cool. As such, it has certain shortcoming inherent to the genre, such as street talking tough black guy, the psychotic white chauvinist pig, and the heroic woman, overcoming oppression with sagacity and perserverence, 1970's porn movie music.
Marta Kristen fights and blows things up and knows how to make gunpowder. Very cool.
Running Time: 81 misn Color
Starring: Rod Lauren, Steve Drexel, Tracy Olsen
A masked lunatic kills off people in a haunted house.
Running Time: 83 mins Black & White
Starring: Dorothy Duke, William Thomason, Timothy Farrell, John Maitland, Monica Davis.
Now, for the first time, through the miracle of modern science, it can be revealed - okay, in 1953 it was a big deal... another one of those wild "road show" pictures actually screened for segregated male/female audiences due to their racy nature.
Married couple's morals begin to deteriorate when they try to have a baby through artificial insemination. Dir. W. Merle Connell
Running Time: 75 mins Color
Starring: Patricia Wymer, George E. Carey, Anne Bellamy
An Assistant District Attorney is about to prosecute members of a motorcycle gang for murder when he gets blackmailed because of an affair with a teenage babysitter.
Running Time: 75 mins Color
Starring: Vic Savage, Shannon O'Neil, William Thourlby
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat the citizens of an American town.
Running Time: 71 mins Color
Starring: Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Ariadna Welter
A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a Satanic cult.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Roy Savage, Dolores Carlos, Mary Margaret
Johnny is an expert at judo, water skiing, golf, tennis, scuba diving, and racing cars, but is a helpless flop around women. One night, in an effort to cure him, his doctor takes him to a nightclub to get him used to being around attractive women. Johnny faints and is humiliated by the newspapers revealing his "malady" and runs away, flying his plane to a remote part of the ocean where he crashes on a island of nude women. At first, Johnny is afraid to look at the naked women...but soon they have him considering the lure of nudity as well.
Running Time: 37 mins Black & White
Starring: Betty Grable, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby,Fibber McGee & Molly, Harpo Marx
Exploitation gem begins with a scientific look of the effects of alcohol, and follows two men who have become alcoholics. "Three out of ten casual drinkers will become the alcoholics of tomorrow!"
Running Time: 92 mins Color
Starring: Wes Bishop, Stefan Zema, Lois Ursone
Two mob money couriers, Frankie and Tony, have their latest package of $1 million stolen by two con women, Dana and Marcia, in which the men must find the women to recover the money before they become marked men.
Running Time: 81 mins Color
Starring: John Alderman, Tom Basham, Henry Olek
Plenty of heads turn when a group of transvestite bikers wheel their way to Los Angeles.
Running Time: 94 mins Color
Starring: Alejandro Rey, John Anderson, Katherine Justice
Returning home late one night from a business trip to Mexico, architect Frank Delgado finds the car of wealthy client Alan Richmond in his driveway. Suspecting that his wife Margo and Richmond are having an affair, Frank attacks Richmond when he steps outside and strangles him to death. Although stunned by his action, Frank drives Richmond's body to the beach and, using a spade he brought from his home, buries the body in the sand. As he finishes the burial, Frank overhears a nearby, young, Latin couple's argument escalate into a fight, but drives away without being seen. The next morning as the police receive a report of the discovery of two bodies at the beach, Frank and Margo are awakened by the arrival of Frank's business partner Dick Hill, his wife Sonya and their friends, pornographic film director Goof and his wife Rita. Although reluctant, the tense Frank agrees to accompany the others to the beach house belonging to Richmond, for whom he and Dick are building another property.
Running Time: 64 mins Black & White
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Johnny Briggs, Ann Lynn, Hilda Fenemore, David Hemmings, Norman Gunn, Bunny May.
Rebellious teen joins a street gang which subsequently beats a black man to death, and when his sister is knifed by a rival gang, he reconsiders his violent actions. Dir. Vernon Sewell
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Starring: Johanna Matz
A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Diane Sinclair, Don Douglas, Sterling Holloway, Hiram Hoover.
Melodrama warns against the threat of forced female sterilization. Watch for Writer/Director Wilbur as "Father O'Brien". Dir. Crane Wilbur.
Townspeople want to sterilize a woman because her family is regarded as a bunch of derelicts and it is feared that her children will be the same.
100% hysterical! This ancient cry for the end of forced sterilisation will have you bewildered, and laughing. The Board of Health wishes to streilise a family of nitwits. The parents are lazy boozehounds well past 70 years old, yet they have infant children! Their oldest daughter is up for the operation, but she's normal wants to marry some nice guy, and have kids. Highlights include a courtroom scene where a judge decides if an insane young man is to be sterilised.
Running Time: 70 mins Black & White
Starring: Evelyn Brent, Lewis Willoughby.
Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.
An early anti-Mormon film which portrayed members of the sect as white slavers. Joseph Smith's crew really gets it in this maniacal 1922 expose'. Weird. Creepy. Just the ticket for the religiously paranoid among us.
Running Time: 91 mins Color
Starring: Zalman King, Brenda Fogarty, Cathy Worthington
A teacher and her class of female students take a class trip to the desert. Their bus breaks down, and they find themselves terrorized by a gang of psycho bikers.
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Starring: Robert Lowry, Rad Fulton, Ray Dannis
A macabre story of two motorcycle-riding, knife-wielding, shiv-shaving, eye-gouging, arm-twisting, chain-lashing, scalpel-flashing, acid-throwing, gun-shooting, bone-breaking, pathological nuts and their pal the UNDERTAKER.
Running Time: 46 mins Black & White
Unintentionally hilarious film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the results of "fooling around" with "loose women" overseas. Actual victims of such sexually transmitted diseases as syphilis and gonorrhea are shown, along with the physical deterioration that accompanies those diseases.
Running Time: 93 mins Color
Starring: Bill Adler, Cynthia Wood, Dennis Bowen
A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.
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Starring: Jean Moorhead
A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at gunpoint, and having makeout parties when her parents are away. Their "fence" gets them to trash the school on request of sinister un-American clients, and they run afoul of the law, apple pie, and God himself.
Running Time: 87 mins Black & White
A young female newspaper reporter is assigned by her editor to investigate the seamier side of Hollywood.
Running Time: 53 mins Black & White
Starring: Robert Frazer, Joan Marsh.
Neglected children grow to become rebellious adults.
Running Time: 62 mins Black & White
Starring: Ray Corrigan, Lorraine Miller, George J. Lewis
A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance. The movie was made by editing some 1947 acting into footage from a 1927 silent serial, Perils of the Jungle, starring Frank Merrill the fifth screen Tarzan.
Running Time: 92 mins Black & White
Starring: Arch Hall Jr., Nancy Czar, Cash Flagg
A young Arch Hall, Jr. is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company played by Arch Hall, Sr. (aka William Watters).
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Documentary about the history of witchcraft, told in a variety of styles. Bizarre, visually arresting, even 80 years later.
In one scene we see witches concocting potions using the body parts of corpses from the gallows. One witch walks in carrying a bundle of sticks, and undoes the bundle revealing a decomposed human hand hidden inside.
Director Benjamin Christensen appears as a leering, tongue-wagging Satan, with very realistic makeup. The witches are shown with the Devil and his minions performing various acts of sacrilege and perversion that must have been extremely shocking at the time the movie originally appeared, and would be offensive to many people still. The film was banned for many years because of the depiction of these acts (not to mention the occasional nudity), as well as sacrileges performed by nuns and monks. There are some stop-motion animation sequences (pre-Harryhousen, no less) that are very good, especially for the time.
Running Time: 80 mins Black & White
Starring: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling
With the exception of the vastly superior Caged, Columbia's Women's Prison was the quintessential "babes behind bars" drama of the 1950s. Ida Lupino (who else?) stars as Amelia VanZant, the sadistic supervisor of the titular prison. Unable to establish any sort of relationship with a man, Amelia takes it out on her long-suffering inmates. When prison psychiatrist Clark (Howard Duff) tries to improve conditions for the women, he too is targetted for destruction by the vituperous Ms. VanZant. The cast includes such perennial "hard-boiled dames" as Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter, Phyllis Thaxter, Gertrude Michael and Mae Clarke. Not taken very seriously in the first place, Women's Prison was elevated to the level of "high camp" by youthful film buffs of the 1960s and 1970s.
Running Time: 80 mins Black & White
Starring: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore
Life at a 1950s women's maximum security prison where the warden and the guards are as brutal as the inmates.