Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Endangered List (Case File #116)


“You’ve seen her as the nurse in ‘Deep Throat’…
now see her as Nancy in…”

YOUNG, RICH AND RIPE (1974)

Starring
Carol Connors
Jack Birch
Don Fowler
Al Del Bake
Aurora Davis
Brend Moore

Rating: Self-applied X

Released by
Re-Mart International

"Knowing and loving the right people
is not a guarantee to the top!"

One of four movies released by Re-Mart International, a Miami-based film production and distribution company co-owned by producer Joseph Fink (DEATH CURSE OF TARTU, STING OF DEATH) and director Rene Martinez, Jr. (THE GUY FROM HARLEM, THE SIX THOUSAND DOLLAR NIGGER). Their first release, ROAD OF DEATH (1973), was an R-rated biker flick directed by Martinez and starring Connors and Birch. RIDE TO ECSTASY (1974) and YOUNG, RICH AND RIPE were released with self-applied X ratings, but Re-Mart's final production, SHOCK (1974) -- also titled THE SANGUINARY and THE HOUSE OF THE OUT FRONTIER -- was rated PG. Fink succumbed to brain cancer shortly after these four hit theaters, Re-Mart dissolved and Martinez (who may have directed YOUNG, RICH AND RIPE) went on to make the two worst blaxploitation movies of all time.

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