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  • Doris Wishman – Diary of a Nudist (1961)

    Doris Wishman1961-1970CultExploitationUSA

    Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very much shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy Taylor to the camp so she can write an expose on the camp and have it shut down. However, much to her surprise, Stacy finds that she enjoys the nudist lifestyle and writes some very positive articles on her experiences, which doesn’t sit well with Arthur. Arthur then decides to join the camp himself and write his own story.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Love Toy (1971)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    A degenerate gambler, unable to come up with the cash necessary for a high stakes gin rummy game, bets his nubile daughter. And loses. His daughter immediately becomes the delectable property of a hot-to-trot sex fiend and the film promptly becomes a catalog of perversion, wallowing in domination, humiliation, fetishism, voyeurism, masturbation, lesbianism, spanking, bondage, blowjobs, incest, and more.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – My Brother’s Wife (1966)

    Doris Wishman1961-1970CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    A man’s wife starts having an affair with her brother-in-law, who is temporarily staying at their apartment.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Keyholes Are for Peeping (1972)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    Keyholes Are For Peeping is a film featuring the forgotten comedian Sammy Petrillo. He plays a Momma’s boy who just received a certificate from some fly-by-night school that has made him a certified marriage counselor. So, he helps people in his building with their marriages. He also has a girlfriend who wants to marry and his mother (also played by Petrillo, looking Jamie Farr-ish) wants to re-marry.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Double Agent 73 (1974)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA

    Synopsis:
    Underworld drug king Toplar is flooding the market with low-grade heroin. Agent 99 gets a bit too close to the truth, but manages to gasp out a clue as to the identity of Toplar: he has a scar. Jane (Agent 73) is called in to find Toplar, and gets a camera implanted in her breast in order to photograph the bad guys she dispatches so headquarters will be able to identify Toplar when she finds him. Meanwhile she begins falling in love with fellow agent Jim.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – Deadly Weapons (1974)

    Doris Wishman1971-1980CultExploitationUSA
    Deadly Weapons (1974)
    Deadly Weapons (1974)

    Synopsis:
    After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he’s a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.Read More »

  • Doris Wishman – The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)

    Doris Wishman1961-1970CultExploitationUSA
    The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
    The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)

    Synopsis:
    This is the story of Paulette (ANNA KAROL), yet another Good-Girl-Gone-Bad-Through-No-Fault-of-Her-Own. A small town gal in search of fame and fortune in the Big Apple, Paulette moves in with Tracy (perennial Wishman bad-girl DARLENE BENNETT) who claims to be a model and knows lots of people in the, uh… “entertainment” business. Not only does Tracy demand two months rent in advance — leaving Paulette broke and vulnerable — but the scantily-clad strumpet then suggests that Paulette go to a swinging party where she can meet theatrical agent Sam (perennial Wishman bad-guy SAM STEWART)…Read More »

  • Stewart Raffill – The Ice Pirates (1984)

    1981-1990CultSci-FiStewart RaffillUSA
    The Ice Pirates (1984)
    The Ice Pirates (1984)

    In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.Read More »

  • John Sayles – Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

    John Sayles1971-1980CultDramaUSA
    Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)
    Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)

    College friends reunite for a New England summer weekend in this low-budget first feature by accomplished independent filmmaker John Sayles. A predecessor of the well-paced, character-driven films in Sayles’ future, Secaucus Seven also looks ahead to the 1980s ensemble movies that it inspired, most notably Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill, which arrived in theaters three years later. As each friend arrives at the house (or travels to the house), characterizations build, dialogue expands, and the house (and film) are full of people getting reacquainted and re-examining themselves and each other. Sayles builds the plot by testing the characters’ connections: Will these former radicals accept the uptight boyfriend of the well-loved politico? What happens when a couple splits up? How does the educated set treat the local blue-collars? Many critics cited Secaucus Seven in their decade-end list of the best films of the 1980s.Read More »

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