Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Movie Ad of the Week: THE BLACK CAT (1984)
Lucio Fulci's THE BLACK CAT (1981), which received limited theatrical exposure in the U.S. through World Northal, opened in a dozen New York-area theaters (including the RKO Proctors here in New Rochelle) on February 4th, 1984.
Friday, August 12, 2011
The Endangered List (Case File #111)
Compiled by Chris Poggiali & Mike MacCollum
IMAGO (1970)
Alternate version: TO BE FREE (1972)
Starring
Barbara Douglas (Carole)
John Morgan Evans (Dr. Keith)
Victoria Wales (Althea)
Jenie Jackson (Molly)
Najila (Barbara)
Buddy Arett (Dobbs)
Peter Cord (Peter)
Raul Hernandez (Reagan)
Dick DeCoit (Bruce)
Robert Webb (Dr. O’Donnell)
Parker Herriott (Blind Priest)
Michael Rae (Red/Keystone Cop)
Michael Loring (Tom)
Harvey Goldstein (Jay)
Written, produced and directed
by
Ned Bosnick
Music by
Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by
Gregory Sandor
Edited by
Gary Kurtz
Assistant Director
Walter Robles
Art Director
Roger Collins
Sound by
Bob Dietz
and
Keith A. Wester
Running time: 88 minutes (IMAGO)
Shooting title: HOW NOW, SWEET EROS?
Starring
Barbara Douglas (Carole)
John Morgan Evans (Dr. Keith)
Victoria Wales (Althea)
Jenie Jackson (Molly)
Najila (Barbara)
Buddy Arett (Dobbs)
Peter Cord (Peter)
Raul Hernandez (Reagan)
Dick DeCoit (Bruce)
Robert Webb (Dr. O’Donnell)
Parker Herriott (Blind Priest)
Michael Rae (Red/Keystone Cop)
Michael Loring (Tom)
Harvey Goldstein (Jay)
Written, produced and directed
by
Ned Bosnick
Music by
Lalo Schifrin
Cinematography by
Gregory Sandor
Edited by
Gary Kurtz
Assistant Director
Walter Robles
Art Director
Roger Collins
Sound by
Bob Dietz
and
Keith A. Wester
Running time: 88 minutes (IMAGO)
Shooting title: HOW NOW, SWEET EROS?
Received simultaneous world premieres in Houston and San Francisco as IMAGO on 12/9/1970. Released by Emerson Film Enterprises with a self-applied X rating.
Rated R by the MPAA in October 1971
Re-cut with new scenes added, and self-distributed by Bosnick [as Joe Magarac, Inc.] in 1972 and ‘73 under the title TO BE FREE
Penn Hills Man Directs Film
“Stage and Screen” column
by George Anderson
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 1st, 1971, p. 20
May your new year be as exciting as it promises to be for a 33-year-old Penn Hills film-maker who has just completed directing his first feature-length movie.
He’s Ned Bosnick, and his film is called IMAGO. He wrote it, produced it and directed it, and it has been picked up by a West Coast distributor who has already released it in San Francisco and Houston.
The film’s and Bosnick’s ties to Houston are important.
“When I graduated from UCLA film school, Stanley Kramer told me not to try to get a studio job in Hollywood,” the new director said the other day while visiting his family here over the holidays.
“He advised me to go somewhere and write a script, and then line up financing for it. That’s the way Kramer started.
“I had no friends in the film industry, so I took off, stopping in various places in Nevada, Idaho, working my way eastward until I wound up in Houston.
“I lived there for a year, made some friends and grew to love the place. I wrote my script and the movie was financed by people in Houston.”
The budget came to more than $300,000.
Bosnick likes Houston so much he has made it his home, and he is heading back now to write the script for his second film.
IMAGO is about a woman in analysis and her sexual fantasies. She is played by newcomer Barbara Douglas, whom Bosnick thinks is headed for stardom.
The film has no production code rating yet. “The distributor thinks it would get an X, but I think it would be given an R today, even though there is some strong stuff in it,” Bosnick said.
The Technicolor film has a score by the noted Lalo Schifrin, composer of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE theme. He scored IMAGO as “a work of love.”
Bosnick’s only previous film was THE SILENT CRISIS for education television, which won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
“The toughest part of making the movie was just raising the money,” Bosnick said.
The experience also gave him a healthy appreciation for the craft of writing. “Writing is what everything else is about,” he said. “Directors have been getting a little more attention than they deserve. Writing is equally important.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/14/71
Penn Hills native Ned Bosnick submitted his first feature film, IMAGO, for a rating, and after a little cutting, got an R from Dr. Aaron Stern’s new stricter administration. “It seems that most of the American public that I have personally come in contact with equate an X rating with pornography – hardcore. We are happy to be out from under that onus, especially since it never applied.” -- George Anderson, "Stage and Screen" column
Renoir Big Influence on Local Film-Maker
“Stage and Screen” column
by George Anderson
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 10th, 1972
When he was growing up in Pittsburgh, Ned Bosnick thought he would be a golf pro. Now he’s coming home as a film-maker.
Bosnick’s first feature, TO BE FREE, will have its world premiere next week at the Shadyside Theater.
Was there more than sentiment involved in choosing Pittsburgh for the first commercial showing of the film?
“There were three reasons for choosing Pittsburgh,” the young writer-producer-director said. “First, it is my hometown. Second, it is close enough to New York where the people I’m working with are located. Third, it is the right size city so that we will be able to launch the film properly, giving it a big campaign without spending $50,000 or more.”
Bosnick and his associates are distributing the film themselves under the name Joe Magarac, Inc. Being the son of a former steelworker, Bosnick chose the name although he said everyone else working on the film was unaware of the Steel City’s Paul Bunyan.
Financing for TO BE FREE came from Texas, and the movie had an unusual history, which I related in this column some time ago.
First released as IMAGO by a West Coast distributor, it was re-edited and partly re-shot by Bosnick to more fully satisfy his ideas.
The story of a young girl who finds her traditional upbringing in conflict with the more permissive ideas of other young people, TO BE FREE is, Bosnick says, open to interpretation.
“Some people who have seen it accept its events as actually happening,” he said.
“Others think of it as being past events related by the girl. Still another interpretation is that it is all a projection in her mind of what will happen or could happen.
“Every knowledgeable film buff who has seen it finds something in it he likes.”
Bosnick insists he did not show TO BE FREE to any of the established film distributors after his rather disenchanting experience with the handling of the film’s first version.
A graduate of the UCLA film school, Bosnick said, “The last few years have really been an education for me. UCLA is really the art-film school. At USC they learn more about the practical side of the business – budgets, etc. I think UCLA needs to teach more of that.”
It was his experience in taking a one-semester course at UCLA from the great French director Jean Renoir that saved Bosnick from dropping out when he was beginning to wonder just was he was doing there.
“He’s such a great man. Even though I really knew nothing about him, I could sense his greatness after just five minutes. Being a little older than some of my fellow students” – Bosnick had previously graduated from Dickinson College – “I found myself out of step with some of their life-styles. So it made a great impression on me that Renoir said a lot of things that I believed.”
“I don’t know if you can appreciate how much it means to a film student to have his first movie shown in a theater, to see it up there on a screen with your name. It’s like a sexual experience.”
When his student film, THE SILENT CRISIS, a 27-minute film about a 17-year-old in a school for the deaf played in a theater, Bosnick invited all his former instructors to see it.
“And it’s hard to believe, but of all those teachers, who do you think was the only one to show up? Jean Renoir, who came with his wife. And he sent me a note afterwards, commenting on the film.”
THE SILENT CRISIS, by the way, received a prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Besides Renoir, other film-makers Bosnick admires are Federico Fellini and Luis Bunuel. “Fellini was the hero of my era,” he recalls. “His 8½ came out then, and he was at the peak of his form. I thought that was the greatest film ever made.”
A tall, lean, youthful figure, Bosnick is already planning his future films. He has one he would like to do with Dustin Hoffman, whom he admires, and another about a rock group traveling across country, which he describes as being “as beautiful as EASY RIDER, but an upbeat film. America the Beautiful.”
TO BE FREE Has Premiere at Shadyside
“Stage and Screen” column
by George Anderson
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 19th, 1972
TO BE FREE, which had its world premiere last night at the Shadyside, is not an easy film to describe or to categorize.
The first feature by director Ned Bosnick, who was born in Penn Hills, it starts out to be the story of the personal conflict of a young girl whose traditional upbringing gives her such sexual hang-ups that she must seek psychiatric help.
But, it gradually and unexpectedly evolves into another story of a fraudulent psychiatrist into whose hands she has the misfortune to fall.
That these dual plot elements are not satisfactorily integrated is one of the film’s difficulties. This reconciliation is not helped by the film’s insistence on ambiguity, sometimes for its own sake.
We are presented with many quick cuts, a wholesale juggling of time sequences and scenes representing the heroine’s private fantasies, all of which make it troublesome to come to grips with the scenes involving the psychiatrist, in conversation with an older colleague or with his receptionist.
Are these fantasies, too? I think not, but Bosnick has said that the entire film can be interpreted as existing in the girl’s mind.
These confusions – whether the film’s or the audience’s, the result is the same – plus occasionally clichéd dialogue and a lack of narrative thrust are the movie’s chief handicaps.
Its assets include superb color photography by Gregory Sandor. Visually, TO BE FREE is an unending delight, except, perhaps, for one needlessly gross bit of burlesque involving a fat woman splashing in a mud puddle.
Bosnick shows genuine talent in handling the film’s visual and technical aspects. The film looks throughout like a big-league entry.
It also boasts a thoroughly ingratiating performance from newcomer Barbara Douglas as the troubled heroine. Blessed with a voluptuous figure, a pixie face, a pleasing personality, a fine air of naturalness and real acting talent, she is a true find.
In fact, she is so good that her character assumes dimensions which make the woodenness and superficiality of the psychiatrist all the more harmful. Indeed, the lack of characterization in every other player except her is conspicuous.
Any list of the film’s merits should also include Lalo Schifrin’s modern score and the overall sense of serious purpose in Bosnick’s work.
This latter quality makes doubly unfortunate the film’s occasional and coincidental similarities to more exploitative films like TOGETHER or WITHOUT A STITCH or GUESS WHAT WE LEARNED IN SCHOOL TODAY in which dubious medical or psychological authorities preached a let-it-all-hang-out philosophy to sexually inhibited characters.
These unearned associations may not bother everyone, however. A more widespread concern may be a lack of emotional involvement in the girl’s problems, regardless of how valid they may be and how warm Miss Douglas’ performance is.
But, even those of us who are left out in the cold in this respect can recognize Bosnick’s potential as a gifted filmmaker and can look forward to future work in which he will have, hopefully, better basic material to work with.
American Film Institute (AFI) catalog description: Carole, a virgin, finds herself incapable of having sex with her fiancée. She goes to Keith, a psychiatrist who prescribes therapy including hypnosis and group encounter sessions. Carole becomes involved with lesbian Althea (the doctor’s receptionist), tries marijuana, and experiences wild nightmares as she struggles to cope with her problems.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Interview with New World's Frances Doel (1981)
One of the only nice things about packing for a move is that you're bound to unearth one or two dusty items you completely forgot you owned. Take for instance Derek Castle's 1982 Screenplay Sales Directory, "The only complete how, who and where of selling your film or TV script," which 30 years later is chock full of contact information for dozens of now deceased actors, producers and directors, as well as companies that haven't been heard from since VHS killed off Betamax. Any normal person would've trashed this book 20 years ago, but the inclusion of a Q&A with Frances Doel, the story editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, ensured its survival all this time in Po-Man's overstuffed filing cabinet. Because of the renewed interest in New World classics like BIG BAD MAMA, PIRANHA and BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS -- mostly due to the special edition DVDs that have come out in the past year -- we've scanned the interview with Ms. Doel and posted it below. Enjoy.
Labels:
FRANCES DOEL,
NEW WORLD PICTURES,
ROGER CORMAN,
SHOUT FACTORY
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Bill Grefe to speak in Orlando on Monday
Florida’s Motion Picture Experience Through the Eyes of a Legend
Altamonte Springs, Florida – Florida Motion Picture & Television Association (FMPTA), Metro Orlando Chapter is proud to present Mr. William Grefe, FMPTA’s Co-Founder, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and Metro Orlando Chapter Life Member as well as Film Florida Legend, as its honored guest and speaker on Monday, August 15th at 7:02 pm at the Hilton Orlando, Almamonte Springs. A reception for Mr. Grefe precedes the presentation at 6pm.
William Grefe’s career began as a television writer, and when the opportunity presented itself, he turned to writing feature films. During the production of his first motion picture script, THE CHECKERED FLAG, the movie’s director became ill and Grefe was drafted into assuming the director’s chores. He brought the film in ahead of schedule and it ended up grossing ten times its negative costs. Riding the wave of that first big success, Grefe continued to write, produce and direct many theatrical, money-making motion pictures including STANLEY, MAKO and CEASE FIRE.
Grefe’s film and television career has run the gamut from Producer/Director of over 25 feature films, to chief operating officer of three film companies. He has directed countless TV commercials for major corporations such as General Motors, Whirlpool and Bacardi. He is a filmmaker who has the reputation of controlling the budget, yet delivering quality film. He is an all around filmmaker who has worked as a producer, director, writer, executive producer, line producer, studio executive, and distributor whose feature films and television shows are being shown theatrically, on TV, cable, video tape, and DVD worldwide. He is not only an internationally known filmmaker, but is a respected business man and executive who has excellent experience in film distribution. He has advised and negotiated distribution contracts for dozens of companies and individuals.
“I am absolutely thrilled to have Bill, as our founder, reach out to me, expressing his pleasure of the FMPTA’s current activities and that he has agreed to share his experiences with us,” explained Metro Orlando Chapter President and State President, Thomas P. Mitchell, Sr. “We are honored to be in the presence of an FMPTA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and a Film Florida Legend and look forward to experiencing Florida’s motion picture history and opportunities through his eyes.”
Reception and presentation are open to the public.
FMPTA serves the motion picture, television, audio recording, theater, and digital media industries in the State of Florida. Members include producers, directors, casting agents, cameramen, actors, stuntmen, technicians, make-up artists, set designers, equipment rental companies, recording studios and trade/craft services.
Contact – Linda Nesmith, FMPTA, Metro Orlando at (386) 873-2453
Sunday, August 07, 2011
Movie Ad of the Week: ALIEN CONTAMINATION (1981)
Luigi Cozzi's earthbound ALIEN knock-off CONTAMINATION (1980) opened in Miami, FL on June 12th, 1981 under the title ALIEN CONTAMINATION.
Labels:
CANNON RELEASING,
LUIGI COZZI,
MOVIE AD OF THE WEEK
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Movie Ad of the Week: SEDUCE AND DESTROY w/ ANGELS' BRIGADE (1982)
The Aaron Spelling/Leonard Goldberg series CHARLIE'S ANGELS enjoyed three wildly successful seasons on ABC before the ratings went south at the start of the fourth, mostly in response to the departure of Kate Jackson (whose Sabrina Duncan character was certainly our favorite Angel). The show ran for another two seasons but was gone from prime time for almost a year when this cash-in double feature rolled into six Atlanta-area theaters on March 12, 1982. Ironically, SEDUCE AND DESTROY is a retitling of Ted V. Mikels' THE DOLL SQUAD (1973), the snail-paced tale of an all-girl commando team's mission to stop a rogue government agent from stealing U.S. missiles, which Mikels claimed for years was the uncredited blueprint for the Spelling/Goldberg show (One of the characters is even named Sabrina). The second feature, Greydon Clark's ANGELS' BRIGADE (a.k.a. SEVEN FROM HEAVEN) -- about seven young women in a customized van who wage war against drug dealers led by Peter Lawford and Jack Palance -- was sold as a CHARLIE'S ANGELS knock-off when first released in 1979, but it also predates the hit TV show. Announced in the trades in January 1973 as a blaxploitation film titled SEVEN SOUL SISTERS, it was originally to star R&B singer Ginji James in the role that eventually went to leading lady Susan Kiger (Playboy's Miss January 1977), and Aldo Ray as a corrupt cop in business with the drug dealers.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Movie Ad of the Week: FIRECRACKER w/ BAMBOO DOLL HOUSE (1981)
This double bill of Philippines-shot exploitation from New World Pictures opened at the Rialto Theater (Atlanta, GA) in May 1981. Cirio H. Santiago's first directorial effort for New World since COVER GIRL MODELS six years earlier, FIRECRACKER was a remake of Santiago's own TNT JACKSON (1974) and starred Jillian Kesner, "1981 Winner of the North American Black Belt Olympics" (Similarly, the publicity for TNT JACKSON claimed that star Jeanne Bell was an "Ebony Fist Award" winner). The music is mostly taken from SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980) and the film's most memorable setpiece was shot in L.A. by director Allan Holzman and cinematographer Don Jones.
BAMBOO DOLL HOUSE is a re-release of WOMEN IN CAGES (1971) that utilizes the ad campaign for THE BIG DOLL HOUSE (also '71).
BAMBOO DOLL HOUSE is a re-release of WOMEN IN CAGES (1971) that utilizes the ad campaign for THE BIG DOLL HOUSE (also '71).
Friday, July 22, 2011
The Endangered List (Case File #110)
HEROINA (1965)
Starring
Kitty de Hoyos (Laura)
Jaime Sánchez (Chico)
Otto Sirgo (Marcos)
Jeddu Mascorieto (Tito)
Marta Casanas (The Mother)
José de San Antón (The Father)
Nydia Caro (Nina)
Félix Monclova (Nick)
Olga Guillot (The Singer)
Freddie Baez (The Addict)
Produced and directed
by
Jeronimo Mitchell Melendez
Screenplay by
Enrique de la Torre
Story by
Jeronimo Mitchell Melendez
Music by
Charlie Palmieri
Cinematography by
Luis A. Maisonet
Film Editing by
Gloria Piñeyro
Released by
Royal Films International
Also released by
Columbia Pictures
(to Spanish language theaters)
Black-and-white
Running time: 105 minutes
Shot in Spanish
entirely on location
in New York, NY
Labels:
JAIME SANCHEZ,
KITTY DE HOYOS,
THE ENDANGERED LIST
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Contest winners announced
1. Eric Geggus -- Congratulations! You won the Party Animals for Hire comic book! We'll contact you tonight for your address.
Runner-up winners
2. Michael Irelan
3. Jill Hunter
4. Matthew St. Cyr
(Quasi-Schlocko thought we had 4 copies of Party Animals for Hire to give away, so he pulled another 3 names out of the pickle barrel before we could stop him. We're not exactly sure what the runner-up winners have won, but we'll figure something out).
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Bob Chinn book signing/reading this Friday in L.A.!
Friday, July 8 · 7:30pm
Spring Arts Tower, 453 South Spring Street,
Mezzanine, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (Enter through
The Last Bookstore, acceessible via 5th Street)
Join legendary adult film industry icon Bob Chinn (Johnny Wadd series creator/director and author of Flesh of the Lotus), filmmaker Julia St. Vincent (director of EXHAUSTED), John Holmes biographer Jill Nelson (John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches) and host Bill Margold for the 30th Anniversary of EXHAUSTED and publication party for Bob Chinn’s first Johnny Wadd mystery novel, Flesh of the Lotus. The evening will feature readings by Bob Chinn and Jill Nelson, followed by an intimate screening of EXHAUSTED and more.
Suggested donation is $5.00. Proceeds from book sales and donations will benefit Japan Disaster Relief.
For more information, please contact Rare Bird Lit directly at (213) 623-1773 or , or visit Rare Bird Lit.
Spring Arts Tower, 453 South Spring Street,
Mezzanine, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (Enter through
The Last Bookstore, acceessible via 5th Street)
Join legendary adult film industry icon Bob Chinn (Johnny Wadd series creator/director and author of Flesh of the Lotus), filmmaker Julia St. Vincent (director of EXHAUSTED), John Holmes biographer Jill Nelson (John Holmes: A Life Measured in Inches) and host Bill Margold for the 30th Anniversary of EXHAUSTED and publication party for Bob Chinn’s first Johnny Wadd mystery novel, Flesh of the Lotus. The evening will feature readings by Bob Chinn and Jill Nelson, followed by an intimate screening of EXHAUSTED and more.
Suggested donation is $5.00. Proceeds from book sales and donations will benefit Japan Disaster Relief.
For more information, please contact Rare Bird Lit directly at (213) 623-1773 or , or visit Rare Bird Lit.
Monday, July 04, 2011
The Endangered List (Case File #109)
THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN (1966)
Starring
Sharon Henesy (Norma Jean)
Robert Gentry (Vance)
Marco St. John (Bobo)
Sam Waterston (Andy)
Skip Hinnant (Francis)
Arthur Hughes (Chris)
Henry Oliver (Mayor)
Jack Murray (Announcer)
Jerry Serempa (Spelunker)
Emma Cody (Mrs. Meekas)
Gilbert Elmore (Chance Lawson)
Stanley Tiffany (Johnny)
Karl Wallace (Sheriff)
George Jackson (Elmer)
Roger Krieger (Finch)
Written and Directed
by
Juleen Compton
Produced by
Juleen Compton
and
Stuart Murphy
Cinematography by
Roger Barlow
Music by
Michel Legrand
Edited by
Stuart Murphy
Set Decoration by
Sterling Merritt
Filmed in 1965
Premiered at
the San Francisco Film Festival
October 1966
Released in 1974 by Compton-Murphy Productions
Filmed in 1965
Premiered at
the San Francisco Film Festival
October 1966
Released in 1974 by Compton-Murphy Productions
Labels:
SAM WATERSTON,
SKIP HINNANT,
THE ENDANGERED LIST
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Movie Ad of the Week: "The Holy Smoke Show" (1976)
In 1973, New Line Cinema acquired a trio of 1930s "scare" films -- COCAINE FIENDS (1935), REEFER MADNESS (1936) and SEX MADNESS (1938) -- and reissued them as campy cult films on the college/art house circuit. Here's an ad from January 1976, where they're together on a triple bill advertised as "The Holy Smoke Show."
Friday, July 01, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Mystery Movies: THE SAVAGE RIDERS (1973) and TORNADO ON WHEELS (?)
THE SAVAGE RIDERS was submitted to the MPAA in 1973 (by Pioneer World Distributors) and received an R rating, but we have nothing for TORNADO ON WHEELS. We're hoping one of these turns out to be the elusive MOTORCYCLE MASSACRE.
Monday, June 27, 2011
The Endangered List (Case File #108)
A Harold Robbins presentation with a score by Quincy Jones? We want a copy! Rated PG by the MPAA in 1972, we know nothing more about YAO OF THE JUNGLE than what's revealed in the grainy newspaper ad above (from Long Beach, CA in 1972).
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Movie Ad of the Week: FAST WAY NOWHERE (1966)
Produced and distributed by Gospel Films of Muskegon, MI (now known as Gospel Communications International), this Christian JD/biker movie was still getting church bookings as late as 1980.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
State of the Temple Address 5
Hey guys & gals! Thank you, as always, for dropping by to say hi. A lot of you have been wondering where the heck we’ve been for the past month and a half. First of all, we appreciate all of the emails we’ve received inquiring about our health, financial state and general well-being, and we apologize if we haven’t had the time or energy to respond to them all in a reasonable fashion. We should've posted a simple "Be back soon!" or something else that would've set minds at ease, but we didn't, and our silence only fanned the flames of gossip. Yes, we’ve heard the rumors that have been circulating, so let’s put an end to one or two of the more eyebrow-raising ones that have come down the pike in the past 5 weeks. No, Po-Man was not Al Green’d into the emergency room by a crazy ex-girlfriend, nor was he shamed into seclusion by a certain pesky message board moderator who dared question your humble editor’s allegiances in a public forum a couple of months ago. You can also breathe easier knowing that we were not victims of Randy Quaid’s “star whacker” conspiracy, which may or may not have claimed the life of legendary Intervision Picture Corp. founder and president Larry Gold III earlier this year in Thailand. Nope, none of that.
So what the hell happened? Well, we took off on a month-long cross-country road trip back in April, and right about the time we were strolling into the Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner, NM, we got a call from Quasi-Schlocko that all hell had broken loose back at the Temple. Instead of returning promptly to take care of business, we boldly (stupidly?) pushed on, hitting the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Graceland and Stax and Sun Records in Memphis, the Buford Pusser Home & Museum in Adamsville, the Shiloh and Chickamauga battlefields, and a bunch of other places we'll post about eventually if we ever clear up the shitstorm that erupted in our absence and is still swirling around us.
The long and short of it: We have to move out of this Temple into a new Temple, so don't expect any kind of consistent posting from us until September, 'cause all the good stuff is boxed up and in storage.
So what the hell happened? Well, we took off on a month-long cross-country road trip back in April, and right about the time we were strolling into the Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner, NM, we got a call from Quasi-Schlocko that all hell had broken loose back at the Temple. Instead of returning promptly to take care of business, we boldly (stupidly?) pushed on, hitting the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Graceland and Stax and Sun Records in Memphis, the Buford Pusser Home & Museum in Adamsville, the Shiloh and Chickamauga battlefields, and a bunch of other places we'll post about eventually if we ever clear up the shitstorm that erupted in our absence and is still swirling around us.
The long and short of it: We have to move out of this Temple into a new Temple, so don't expect any kind of consistent posting from us until September, 'cause all the good stuff is boxed up and in storage.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Contest: Win the "Party Animals for Hire" comic book!
Our long-time pal Mike Wood, who’s determined to not become that guy Steely Dan is singing about in “What a Shame about Me,” has collaborated with artist Ed Suckling on a very entertaining comic book titled Party Animals for Hire, Part 1: The Net is Cast. From the back cover: “In their first collaboration since the international crowd-pleaser You. Me. Let’s Hug!, Ed Suckling and Mike Wood return to triumphant form with this biting satire that has everything you could conceivably want in a comic book, and possibly more. Movie stuntmen, courtroom mayhem, big hairy animals…it’s all here, including one helluva plucky heroine! But be warned…you might just end up caught in the net!”
Mike and Ed were nice enough to send us an extra copy of their book, so we’re going to have a drawing on the 4th of July and give it away to one lucky Temple of Schlock subscriber.
Contest rules? There’s only one: If you’re already following us on Blogger, you’ll automatically be entered, but anyone else who wants in on this action needs to either become one of our Worshippers (Followers) or drop us an e-mail that includes your name in the message area and "comic book contest" in the subject line. If Quasi-Schlocko picks your name out of the -- er, whatever hat, box or nearby bucket he's planning to use for this drawing -- we’ll contact you and ask for your mailing address so we can send the book out to you by the end of next week. Cool? OK, so get to it! Let's see some new faces at this party!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Mystery Movies: HOUSEWIFE'S DELIGHT and DIVORCEES ON THE LOOSE (1982)
The double bill of HOUSEWIFE'S DELIGHT and DIVORCEES ON THE LOOSE opened at two drive-ins in Elyria, OH on October 15th, 1982. They sound like West German sex comedies. All we have so far are the ads below.
Monday, June 20, 2011
The Endangered List (Case File #107)
CALLIOPE (1971)
a.k.a. LOVE IS CATCHING
Starring
Sherry Miles
Mark Gottlieb
Sherry Bain
Marty Huston
Gwen Van Dam
Lou Epton
Diana Jones
Shelly Fisher
Choo Choo Collins
Borah Silver
Marjorie Bennett
Stan Rose
Directed by
Matt Cimber
Produced by
Harry Korshak
Screenplay by
Beth Keele
Music by
Tommy Oliver
An Allied Artists release
Running time: 81 minutes
MPAA rating: R
Labels:
MATT CIMBER,
SHERRY BAIN,
SHERRY MILES,
THE ENDANGERED LIST
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- Darktown Strutters
- Escape From Safehaven
- Extreme Close-Up
- Fair Game (1986)
- Fight And Love With A Terracotta Warrior
- From Beyond
- Frühreifen-Report
- Getting Even (1976)
- Girl From Starship Venus, The
- Great Hollywood Rape-Slaughter, The
- Hitchhike To Hell
- Hollywood 90028
- In Trouble
- International Stewardesses
- Intimate Playmates
- Killpoint
- Legend of Frenchie King, The
- Lola Baby
- Love Is A Four-Letter Word
- Love in 3-D
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller
- My Boys Are Good Boys
- Naked Killers, The
- One-Eyed Monster
- Penthouse Playgirls
- Pets
- Pushing Up Daisies
- Queen's Ransom, A
- Raiders of the Living Dead
- Rape Victims
- Scream in the Streets, A
- Simon, King of the Witches
- Striptease (a.k.a. Insanity!)
- Strong Together
- Teeny Boppers, The
- This Time I'll Make You Rich
- Thursday Morning Murders, The
- Twisted Justice
- Una Mariposa en la Noche
- Vigilante Force
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly
BOOK REVIEWS
- "Black Cop" -- by Dom Gober [Joseph Nazel]
- "Cutie, The" -- by Donald E. Westlake
- "Death Has Many Doors" -- by Fredric Brown
- "Destroyers, The" -- by A.W. Miller
- "Dust" -- by Charles Pellegrino
- "Getting Off" -- by Jill Emerson [Lawrence Block]
- "Goliath Bone, The" -- by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
- "Grove Of Doom" -- by Maxwell Grant
- "Harry and the Bikini Bandits" -- by Basil Heatter
- "High Bloods" -- by John Farris
- "Hunt At The Well of Eternity" -- by Gabriel Hunt
- "Iceman #1: Billion Dollar Death" -- by Joseph Nazel
- "Inside Black Hollywood" -- by Carol Speed
- "Marilyn Tapes, The" -- by E.J. Gorman
- "Murder On Location" -- by George Kennedy
- "Screamplays" -- edited by Richard Chizmar
- "Six Men Of Evil" -- by Maxwell Grant
THE ENDANGERED LIST
- 69 Minutes
- Activist, The
- Ain't That Just Like A Honkey! -- FOUND!
- Alias Big Cherry
- Another Nice Mess -- FOUND!
- Arnold's Wrecking Co. -- FOUND!
- Astrologer, The -- FOUND!
- Baby Vickie
- Bagel Report, The
- Bandits on the Wind
- Beach Boy Rebels
- Beautiful People (The Sexorcists) -- FOUND!
- Belinda
- Belt and Suspenders Man, The
- Birds in Peru -- FOUND!
- Black Chariot
- Blast
- Bleep
- Blue Hour, The -- FOUND!
- Bogard
- Boots and the Preacher
- Brand X -- FOUND!
- Brother, Cry For Me (Boca Affair) -- FOUND!
- Bruka, Queen of Evil -- FOUND!
- Brutes, The (Cry Rape) -- FOUND!
- Burn, Baby, Burn (The Carolyn Lima Story)
- Calliope (a.k.a. Love is Catching) -- FOUND!
- Captives, The
- Catch My Soul (Santa Fe Satan) -- FOUND!
- Channel One Underground Television
- Circle, The
- Close Shave
- Coming Of Seymour, The (The Boob Tube Strikes Again!)
- Convention Girls -- FOUND!
- Countdown at Kusini (Cool Red)
- Cult, The (The Manson Massacre) -- FOUND!
- Dare the Devil
- Day At The White House, A
- Dead End Dolls
- Deadly Touch, The
- Devil's Sisters, The -- FOUND!
- Did Baby Shoot Her Sugar Daddy? -- FOUND!
- Dirty Dolls, The -- FOUND!
- Dirtymouth -- FOUND!
- Dr. Shagetz
- Dragonspade
- Drop Out
- Easy Virtue (Teenage Party Girls)
- Eden Cried -- FOUND!
- Edge of the Arctic Ice
- Ensalada Baudelaire (Andrea, Sex and Violence) -- FOUND!
- Farmer, The -- FOUND!
- Female Response, The -- FOUND!
- Foxy Lady
- Francy's Friday (Pleasure with a Twist) -- FOUND!
- Funk In 3-D
- Gas City
- Get it On!
- Get Rollin' -- FOUND!
- Goin' Down Slow (a.k.a. A Fable)
- Goodnight Jackie (a.k.a. Games Guys Play) -- FOUND!
- Great Balloon Race, The
- Great Hitch-Hike Race, The
- Great Masquerade, The -- FOUND!
- Great Raft Race, The
- Guitar Picks & Roach Clips
- Half Way to Hell -- FOUND!
- Hangup (a.k.a. Super Dude) -- FOUND!
- Happily Ever After -- FOUND!
- Haunted Samurai, The (Kaze No Tengu) - FOUND!
- Hentai
- Heroina
- House Of Zodiac
- How's Your Love Life?
- Hugo's Magic Pump
- Imago (a.k.a. To Be Free)
- Inbreaker, The
- Interplay (a.k.a. Part Time Virgins)
- It Happened One Weekend (a.k.a. Scarlet Love)
- It's Your Thing
- Just Be There (a.k.a. Swinging Teacher) -- FOUND!
- Keep Off My Grass -- FOUND!
- Lardfather, The
- Lash of Lust
- Last Foxtrot in Burbank
- Legend of Amaluk, The
- Limit, The
- Long Night, The -- FOUND!
- Love Robots, The
- Loving Cousins (Hot and Bothered, High School Girl) -- FOUND!
- Mafia on the Bounty
- Man in the Iron Cage
- Manicurist, The
- Mermaid, The -- FOUND!
- Mickey Thompson: Man in the Steel Cage
- Miss Leslie's Dolls -- FOUND!
- Motorcycle Massacre
- Nest Of The Cuckoo Bird, The -- FOUND!
- Never Look Back
- Never The Twain
- Okay, Bill
- Patty -- FOUND!
- Pigeon (A Place Without Parents, Truckin')
- Plastic Dome of Norman Jean, The
- Player, The (1971)
- President Must Die, The
- President's Women, The
- Rat Fink -- FOUND!
- Ride to Ecstasy
- Robin -- FOUND!
- Run Before The Wind
- Running with the Devil
- Russky (Carnal Connection) -- FOUND!
- Sammy Somebody
- Santa's Christmas Circus -- FOUND!
- Sasqua
- Scooter in Palm Beach
- Scorpio '70
- Scream, Evelyn, Scream!
- Secret Places, Secret Things -- FOUND!
- Secretary, The
- Secrets of Ecstasy '72
- Shrink, The
- Silent Death -- FOUND!
- Slaves -- FOUND!
- Slick Silver
- Slime Town Blues
- Solomon King -- FOUND!
- Southern Double Cross, The
- Stepdaughter, The -- FOUND!
- Stevie, Samson and Delilah
- Stop! -- FOUND!
- Stranger in Hollywood
- Stump Run
- Suckers, The -- FOUND!
- Summer Run (Harry, The Backpack Girls)
- Sunshine Sea, The
- Theatre of Life (Jinsei Gekijo)
- There is No 13 -- FOUND!
- These Pleasures Condemned
- Things to Come -- FOUND!
- Threesome (Models, Inc.) -- FOUND!
- Tiny Lund: Hard Charger!
- Together For Days (Black Cream) -- FOUND!
- Toke (Joint Crossing, Esperanza)
- Touch the Sky
- Towing (Who Stole My Wheels?, Fun Girls) -- FOUND!
- Transformation (A Sandwich of Nightmares)
- Troika
- Turn on to Love
- Two for the Money
- Valley of Blood (1973)
- Vice Squad Women
- Violated! (The Rapist, The Hollywood Ripper)
- Void Where Prohibited by Law
- Voodoo Heartbeat
- Walk the Walk -- FOUND!
- Wanderlove
- Watch Out for the Bummer -- FOUND!
- Waves of Change
- Wedding Night
- Wednesday Children, The -- FOUND!
- Welcome to Oblivion
- White Salt and Sunshine
- Willy's Gone (Ghetto Rat)
- Yao of the Jungle
- You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You'll Lose That Beat)
- Young Sinner, The -- FOUND!
- Young, Rich and Ripe

















































