That's Sexploitation!
Directed by Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis
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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.Read moreLess
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.
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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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Frank HenenlotterHimself
Gal FridayHerself
Bettie PageSelf - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Brigitte BardotSelf (archive footage)
Tempest StormSelf - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Lili St. CyrSelf - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Blaze StarrSelf/Belle Fleming (archive footage)
Sally RandSelf - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage)
Virginia BellSelf - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Marcia Mae Jonesarchive footageExplore the crew
- Writer
- Frank Henenlotter
- Editor
- Frank Henenlotter
- Producer
- Jimmy Maslon
- Director
- Frank Henenlotter
- Producer
- Mike Vraney
- Producer
- Donald A. Davis
- Director
- David F. Friedman
- Writer
- Donald A. Davis
- Writer
- David F. Friedman
- Director
- Donald A. Davis
- Producer
- David F. Friedman
- Producer
- Arther Knight