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That's Sexploitation!
This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past.
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.
Where to watch That's Sexploitation!
That's Sexploitation! is streaming in the US on Night Flight Plus, Cultpix, Midnight Pulp, Bloodstream and Fawesome.
Cast
- Frank Henenlotter as Himself
- David F. Friedman as Himself
- Gal Friday as Herself
- Albert Cadabra as Himself
- Bettie Page as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
- Brigitte Bardot as Self (archive footage)
- Tempest Storm as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
- Lili St. Cyr as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
- Blaze Starr as Self/Belle Fleming (archive footage)
- Sally Rand as Self - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage)
- Virginia Bell as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
- Marcia Mae Jones as archive footage
Details
- Director
- Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman and Donald A. Davis
- Released
- June 25, 2013
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Studio
- Something Weird Video (SWV) and Severin Films
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 5.9 / 10 from 23 votes
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