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How To Undress In Front of Your Husband, Sex Madness, Marihuana, Reefer Madness
Dwain Esper and his wife Hildagarde Stadie created some very insane movies!
A veteran of World War I, Esper worked as a building contractor before switching to the film business in the mid-1920s. He produced and directed inexpensive pictures with titles like Sex Maniac, Marihuana, and How to Undress in Front of Your Husband. To enhance the appeal of these low-budget features, he included scenes containing gratuitous nudity and violence that led some to label him the "father of modern exploitation."
Esper's wife, Hildagarde Stadie, wrote many of the scripts for his films. They employed extravagant promotional techniques that included exhibiting the mummified body of notorious Oklahoma outlaw Elmer McCurdy - Wikipedia
Elaine Barrie Barrymore, Trixie Friganza and Hal Richardson Director: Dwain Esper A "Peeping Tom" likes to look through windows at women undressing. We see him as he sneaks a peek at two "subjects". His first one, a young woman who apparently has a major lingerie fetish, is young, shapely and attractive. The second one--to be charitable--isn't. That doesn't stop him, and the viewer, from getting an eyeful.
Elaine was in the process of divorcing John Barrymore when she popped up in this short with the promotion playing up her married name. The Barrymore family was not happy. However, she and John reconciled after the film came out and would finally divorce in 1940.
Watch the short here about 15 minutes. Actually, all of Esper’s films are short, around 65 minutes:
Marijuana: Weed With Roots In Hell
A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend, and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny-dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher to make money so they can get married.
FULL MOVIE HERE:
SEX MADNESS
Film purportedly used to warn adolescents and young adults of the dangers of venereal diseases, specifically syphilis. Wild parties, lesbianism and premarital sex are some of the forms of "madness" portrayed in the film. The educational aspect of the film allowed it to represent a taboo subject that was prohibited by the Film Production Code in the 1930s.
FULL MOVIE HERE:
Next for paid subscribers, REEFER MADNESS in both black and white and colorized versions!
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