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unusual facts about Exploitation film



Al Cliver

Al Cliver (born 16 July 1951) is an Italian actor who is perhaps best known for starring in horror and exploitation films, especially ones by directors Lucio Fulci and Jesús Franco.

Alice Arno

She became, along with Lina Romay and Monica Swinn, one of the most popular figures of European Exploitation film working for Eurociné and for Robert De Nesle's Comptoir Français de Productions Cinématographiques.

Child Bride

Although the film was banned in many areas, the movie's controversial nature gave it a certain infamy and it played on the so-called exploitation circuit for many years.

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

As an exploitation film tie in, Universal had the feature's title changed to Mars Attacks the World, and a week after the Welles broadcast, opened it at a Broadway theater as a major premiere event.

Harry Novak

Harry Novak, "the sexploitation king," produced and distributed a prolific number of exploitation films from the early 60s to the mid-70s, including William Rotsler's cult classics The Agony of Love and Mantis in Lace and the influential "monster nudie" Kiss Me Quick! among many others.

Modern Film Distributors

Following the success of the exploitation film Mom and Dad, the four leading presenters of the time (including Kroger Babb) agreed to work together to book each other's films (Mom and Dad, Street Corner, Because of Eve, and The Story of Bob and Sally) in various territories to reduce overlap and increase the profits for each party.

Mondo Cannibale

Mondo Cannibale (also known as Cannibals, Die Blonde Gottin, White Cannibal Queen and Barbarian Goddess) is a 1980 cannibal film by prolific Spanish exploitation director Jesús Franco which starred a 17-year-old Sabrina Siani .

Rene Bond

Bond began her career in softcore exploitation films produced by Harry Novak in the late 1960s before moving on to hardcore films in the early 1970s.

Rick Jacobson

In 2009, he directed his most well-known film, the exploitation film Bitch Slap starring Julia Voth, Erin Cummings and America Olivo.

Schlitzie

Schlitzie appeared in bit roles in various movies, and is credited with a role in the 1934 exploitation film Tomorrow's Children, as a mentally-defective criminal who undergoes forced sterilization.

Sick Bubblegum

The audio sample heard at the beginning of the song is from the American exploitation film, Werewolves on Wheels.


see also

Confessions of a Sorority Girl

The movie is loosely based on the 1957 exploitation film Sorority Girl, starring Susan Cabot and Barboura Morris.

Crime of the century

Guyana: Crime of the Century, a 1979 exploitation film loosely based on the Jonestown massacre

I Escaped from Devil's Island

I Escaped from Devil's Island is a 1973 exploitation film about an escape attempt from Devil's Island.

Son of Ingagi

Cynthia Erb, author of Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture suggests that the reason the film's monster does not match the title in the film was possibly for box office reasons, as to have it relate to the popular success of the exploitation film Ingagi (1930).

The Way of a Man with a Maid

The Way of a Man with a Maid was adapted as a softcore exploitation film entitled What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975) starring Sue Longhurst as Alice and Ole Soltoft as Jack.