Thursday, January 11, 2024

Night Of Nudies

Michael Flores from The Global Psychotronic Film Society

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A Night Of Nudies: LUSTING HOURS & H.G. LEWIS' SCUM OF THE EARTH!

Softcore in the 60's- a magic time before hard kicked in, so many great and now forgotten tease films.

MICHAEL FLORES

JAN 11

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Watch SCUM OF THE EARTH by clicking here!

An innocent college student, Kim Sherwood (Downe), is lured into doing "glamour" poses to earn money for tuition. Once she has done this work she is blackmailed by the photographers into doing more and more explicit posing.

In his autobiography, David F. Friedman wrote that Scum of the Earth was shot in six days, just two weeks after filming on Blood Feast had ended and was filmed in most of the same Miami and Miami Beach locations as in the previous film. It was filmed in black-and-white not to save money, but to intentionally give it a dirty look, "like an old, scratched 16 mm stag film." Friedman had the idea of promoting the film a week before its showing by giving theater audiences comic books of the story.

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Watch LUSTING HOURS by clicking this link!

Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, LUSTING HOURS is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection.

Photo: Janet Banzet in LUSTING HOURS.

Janet Banzet (May 17, 1934 – July 29, 1971), also credited as Marie Brent and several other names, was an American actress who appeared in several sexploitation films of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She starred in several provocatively titled films directed by Michael Findlay and Joseph W. Sarno.

Watch Janet Banzet in LUSTING HOURS click here:

Born Jeanette Banzet on May 17, 1934 in Dallas, Texas, Janet Banzet moved to New York in the late 1950s to pursue an acting career. At first the signs were good; she attended Bill Hickey’s acting classes at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village and had a string of roles in off-Broadway theater productions as well as uncredited walk-on parts in the films ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ (1961) and ‘Lilith’ (1964).

An attractive Mary Tyler Moore lookalike, she also had her fair share of newspaper column inches, including a curious mention in Walter Winchell’s Herald Journal gossip column in January 1960 which referred to her as a “bit-player in the off-Broadway ‘Waltz of the Toreadors’ … who inherits $30 million in Texas realty when she becomes 30”. Whatever the truth behind this, Jeanette continued to tread the boards, and in 1963, was reported to be taking a recurring part in the acclaimed ABC police drama ‘Naked City’. The show was cancelled later that year before her big chance came.

By the mid 1960s, acting roles were becoming less frequent, and so she replied to an ad to appear in one of Barry Mahon’s low budget films. Mahon was the king of the first wave of New York sexploitation films, and she featured in an uncredited part in his ‘The Beast That Killed Women’. It was easy money – and she earned more for that afternoon’s work than she did for two week’s work in the theater.

For the rest of the decade, Jeanette featured in a steady sequence of soft core films. Most of the time she hid behind anonymous names like Pat Barnett and Marie Brent for fear of damaging her spiraling mainstream career.

By now mainstream acting parts seemed to have completely dried up, and her film work was increasingly in the cheaper sex films that were being churned out. Concerned that the films were becoming more sexually explicit, Jeanette started supplementing her income by working as a manicurist. One of her last appearances was Stallone’s “The Party at Kitty and Stud’s” as a girl in Central Park who flashes the future Rocky. Reportedly homeless at the time, Stallone took the work out of desperation. “It’s funny how you can readjust your morality for the sake of self-preservation,” he told Playboy in 1978.

She committed suicide on July 29, 1971 in her apartment at 1762 First Ave in New York City. She was due to meet up with friends that evening for dinner – one of whom was Joseph Kaliff, a well know syndicated Broadway columnist and caricaturist. She covered her face with a bag before hanging herself.

The tragic life of Janet Banzet click here

Behind the paywall- Sweden actually started soft core several years before anyone else. Blonde In Bondage in 1957 was banned in many states in the U.S.- in 1957 this film about drugs and sex shocked audiences and the powers that be- but within a few years American filmmakers began doing their own softcore films.

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