That's Sexploitation! (2013)

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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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Frank Henenlotter
  • Profile picture of Frank Henenlotter
    Himself Frank Henenlotter
  • Profile picture of Gal Friday
    Herself Gal Friday
  • Profile picture of Virginia Bell
    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) Virginia Bell
  • Profile picture of Herschell Gordon Lewis
    Self (archive footage) Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • Profile picture of Russ Meyer
    Self (archive footage) Russ Meyer
  • Profile picture of Bettie Page
    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) Bettie Page
  • Profile picture of Sally Rand
    Self - Burlesque Fan Dancer (archive footage) Sally Rand
  • Profile picture of Lili St. Cyr
    Self - Burlesque Performer (archive footage) Lili St. Cyr

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