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From the 1920s through the 1970s, America's most fearless entrepreneurs created thousands of "adults only" features - exploitation films that promised "Sinsational!" treatments of the day's hottest topics. Grindhouse lovingly traces the ribald history of these "adults only" films, down Poverty Row through the Scandinavian invasion, past the nudie-cuties, and into the swinging days of free love. In truth, the movies themselves were tame (and usually lame) by today's standards. The tantalizing titles and overblown ad copy, however, were another matter. Grindhouse brims with rare posters and lobby cards for such masterpieces as Wages of Sin, Diary of a Nudist, Teaserama, Mom and Dad, Girl Gang, "Tonight for Sure!" and hundreds more. Adding yet more color to this history of blue movies are revealing portraits of the artists and auteurs behind these films, including Dwain Esper, Kroger Babb, Russ Meyer, Doris Wishman, David F. Friedman, Radley Metzger, and the Mitchell Brothers.
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Sean Bronstein
reviewed Grindhouse on August 04, 2011
Grindhouse
This book is not about the X-Rated films familiar since the 70s, but the tame precursors that promised a bit of skin, told stories about naughty girls, and sent the Legion of Decency into conniptions long before they had a reason to connip. Anyone who studies cinema becomes aware of these back-room romps, flirty stories, burlesque showcases, and fake documentaries, but real information is hard to come by. The authors did me a service by surveying this dreary field, writing about the better-known titles, discussing the distribution system, interviewing the people who made and showed the films to a mostly-male public. I now know more about these films that I really want to, but that is a kind of praise.
In truth, the subject is not very important so the authors put a lot of energy into something that does not matter (which explains the number of stars given in this review), but I am glad to be informed about this usually hidden corner of cinema history.
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