That's Sexploitation!
That's Sexploitation!
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.
Release Date
June 25, 2013
Runtime
136 minutes
Rating
Status
Released
Genres
Cast
Frank Henenlotter
Himself
Gal Friday
Herself
Bettie Page
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Brigitte Bardot
Self (archive footage)
Tempest Storm
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Lili St. Cyr
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Blaze Starr
Self/Belle Fleming (archive footage)
Sally Rand
Self - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage)
Virginia Bell
Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage)
Marcia Mae Jones
archive footage
Constance Worth
archive footage
William H. Hays
Self (archive footage)
Content Source
Data provided by The Movie Database (TMDB).
