That's Sexploitation! (2013)
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.
Directors: Frank Henenlotter, David F. Friedman, Donald A. Davis.
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Frank Henenlotter as Himself |
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David F. Friedman as Himself |
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Gal Friday as Herself |
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Albert Cadabra as Himself |
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Bettie Page as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Brigitte Bardot as Self (archive footage) |
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Tempest Storm as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Lili St. Cyr as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Blaze Starr as Self/Belle Fleming (archive footage) |
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Sally Rand as Self - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage) |
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Virginia Bell as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Marcia Mae Jones as archive footage |
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Constance Worth as archive footage |
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William H. Hays as Self (archive footage) |
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Russ Meyer as Self (archive footage) |
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Herschell Gordon Lewis as Self (archive footage) |
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Mike Vraney as Self (archive footage) |
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Eleanor Ames as Self (archive footage) |
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Mary Blair as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Manny Brown as Self (archive footage) |
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Doreen Cannon as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Peter A. DeCenzie as Self (archive footage) |
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Kalantan as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Russell Patterson as Self - Pinup Artist (archive footage) |
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Iva Pratt as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Vera Richkova as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Rosita Royce as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Doris Wishman as Self (archive footage) |
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Louis K. Sher as Self (archive footage) |
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Dan Sonney as Self (archive footage) |
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Georgia Sothern as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Bebe Hughes as Nudist Fencer (archive footage) |
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Cherrie Knight as Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) |
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Lorraine Lane as Self (archive footage) |
| Writing | Frank Henenlotter | Writer |
| Editing | Frank Henenlotter | Editor |
| Production | Jimmy Maslon | Producer |
| Directing | Frank Henenlotter | Director |
| Production | Mike Vraney | Producer |
| Directing | David F. Friedman | Director |
| Art | Lisa Petrucci | Art Direction |
| Production | Donald A. Davis | Producer |
| Camera | Brent Kerr | Camera Operator |
| Production | Jason Higgins | Post Production Producer |
| Writing | David F. Friedman | Writer |
| Production | David F. Friedman | Producer |
| Writing | Donald A. Davis | Writer |
| Production | Arther Knight | Producer |
| Directing | Donald A. Davis | Director |
| Camera | Anthony Sneed | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Peter Toh | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Daniel Griffith | Camera Operator |
