That's Sexploitation! (2013)

ALL 06/25/2013 (en) Documentary 136 Min
  • Release
    06/25/2013
  • Production
    Something Weird Video (SWV), Severin Films
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    That's Sexploitation!
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past.

Overview

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.

  1. Story



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  1. Frank Henenlotter

    Himself

  2. David F. Friedman

    Himself

  3. Gal Friday

    Herself

  4. Albert Cadabra

    Himself

  5. Eleanor Ames

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Virginia Bell

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  7. Mary Blair

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  8. Manny Brown

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Doreen Cannon

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  10. Peter A. DeCenzie

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Kalantan

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  12. Herschell Gordon Lewis

    Self (archive footage)

  13. Russ Meyer

    Self (archive footage)

  14. Bettie Page

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  15. Russell Patterson

    Self - Pinup Artist (archive footage)

  16. Iva Pratt

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  17. Sally Rand

    Self - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage)

  18. Vera Richkova

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  19. Rosita Royce

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  20. Louis K. Sher

    Self (archive footage)

  21. Dan Sonney

    Self (archive footage)

  22. Georgia Sothern

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  23. Lili St. Cyr

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  24. Blaze Starr

    Self/Belle Fleming (archive footage)

  25. Tempest Storm

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  26. Doris Wishman

    Self (archive footage)

  27. William H. Hays

    Self (archive footage)

  28. Bebe Hughs

    Nudist Fencer (archive footage)

  29. Cherrie Knight

    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)

  30. Mike Vraney

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 30 , Crews : 18

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That's Sexploitation! (2013) 136 Min

ALL 06/25/2013 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 06/25/2013
  • Production
    Something Weird Video (SWV), Severin Films
  • Original title That's Sexploitation!
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past.

Overview

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.

  1. Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Frank Henenlotter

    Editor

  4. Jimmy Maslon, Mike Vraney, Donald A. Davis, David F. Friedman, Arther Knight

    Producer