Documentary

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.

Release Date : 2013-06-25

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Something Weird Video (SWV)Severin Films

Production Country : United States of America

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Cast

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Original Name : Frank Henenlotter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Himself

Original Name : David F. Friedman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Herself

Original Name : Gal Friday

Gender : Male

Character Name : Himself

Original Name : Albert Cadabra

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Eleanor Ames

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Virginia Bell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Mary Blair

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Manny Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Doreen Cannon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Peter A. DeCenzie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Kalantan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Herschell Gordon Lewis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Russ Meyer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Bettie Page

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - Pinup Artist (archive footage)

Original Name : Russell Patterson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Iva Pratt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage)

Original Name : Sally Rand

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Vera Richkova

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Rosita Royce

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Louis K. Sher

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Dan Sonney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Georgia Sothern

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Lili St. Cyr

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self/Belle Fleming (archive footage)

Original Name : Blaze Starr

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Tempest Storm

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Doris Wishman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : William H. Hays

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nudist Fencer (archive footage)

Original Name : Bebe Hughs

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

Original Name : Cherrie Knight

Gender : Female

Character Name : Self (archive footage)

Original Name : Mike Vraney

Gender : Male

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