Two Southern-Fried Slices of Sordid ’60s Hicksploitation Films
Angry old men, sexy strumpets, moonshiners, corrupt sheriffs, and dumb farmhands populate them thar hills in these two low-budget ’60s hicksploitation films.
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Exposed: Kino Lorber’s Forbidden Fruit Series Parade a Bevy of Brazen Gender Roles
These Forbidden Fruit sexploitation films by Robert C. Dertano and Lillian Hunt function as snapshots of a moment in baggy-pants comedy and terpsichorean art.
Huxters and Do-Gooders and the “Forbidden Fruit” Film Series
Have a peak behind the censored curtain, if you dare, with provocative exploitation films Marihuana,Narcotic, Tomorrow’s Children, and Child Bride.
Birds, Bees, and Desperate Housewives, or How Joe Sarno Made Sex Look Good
Whereas Sweden was commonly held up as a political-economic "Third Way" between the capitalist West and the communist Iron Curtain, the budding or chafing sexual revolution in cinema was having its own Third Way in the form of Swedish-American filmmaker Joe Sarno.
Was ’60s Sexploitation Cinema More Than Just Pornography?
Film history work Lewd Looks argues that sexploitation films provided an underground and important bridge between the end of old Hollywood and the start of something else.