She’s the Pop Top Princess with the Recyclable Can! (July, 1975)

 

 

 

 

 
Although John Broderick’s Six Pack Annie, where our title lush searches for the right Sugar Daddy to keep her restaurant afloat, isn’t the apex of the Hicksploitation or Backwater Buffoonery genre it’s still worth your time, even if you don’t have a high tolerance for such things. As for our second feature, we move out of the country to the streets of suburban Los Angeles, where our title lead is a cop who gives his *ahem* ‘nightstick’ a lot of work as he protects and serves, and serves, and serves and serves and serves, a seemingly endless line of needy women. (And you won’t believe what the Urban Dictionary’s definition of a Dirty O’Neil is…)

Six Pack Annie (1975) United Producers :: American International / P: John C. Broderick  / D: Graydon F. David / W: Norman Winski, David Kidd, Wil David / C: Daniel Lacambre  / E: John H. Arrufat / M: Raoul Kraushaar / S: Lindsay Bloom, Jana Bellan, Bruce Boxleitner, Larry Mahan, Doodles Weaver

Dirty O’Neil (1974) Metaphor Production :: United Producers :: American International / EP: Leon Capetanos / P: John C. Broderick / AP: James V. Hart / D: Lewis Teague, Howard Freen / W: Howard Freen / C: Stephen M. Katz / E: Lewis Teague / M: Raoul Kraushaar / S: Morgan Paull, Art Metrano, Jeane Manson, Katie Saylor, Pat Anderson

Drive In Mash-Up :: Throw Away Your Tranquilizers for the Screwiest Comedy of the Year! (October, 1964)

 

 

 

 

 

Where Adventure Ends — And HELL Begins! (June, 1973)

 

 

 

 

 

 
Okay, now I know that last ad technically isn’t a double-feature but it still cracks me all the hell up. Inspired by Elliot Silverstein’s A Man Called Horse, which saw Richard Harris forcibly going native and suspended on a couple of meat-hooks through his chest, Umberto Lenzi’s unofficial remake finds another Brit well off the beaten path of civilization, deep in the jungles of Thailand, where he is captured by some natives who go all Mondo Cane on his ass. Yeah, we’ve got Cannibal Cinema Ground Zero, here, folks, complete with sadistic tribal rituals, wholesale animal slaughter, and who the hell knows what else will be permanently scarred into you retinas. And with its box-office success, for the next decade, Lenzi and fellow Italian director Ruggero Deodato would continually march off into the jungle to try and one up each other by heaping one atrocity on top of the other in effort to make the audience taste their popcorn twice. And you can see it all if you’re over 18 — with proof, pilgrim.

Man from Deep River (1972) Medusa Produzione :: Joseph Brenner Assoc. / EP: Giorgio Carlo Rossi / P: Ovidio G. Assonitis / D: Umberto Lenzi / W: Francesco Barilli, Massimo D’Avak / C: Riccardo Pallottini / E: Eugenio Alabiso / M: Daniele Patucchi / S: Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai, Prasitsak Singhara, Sulallewan Suxantat

Drive-In Mash-Up :: Super-Charged Girls! Always Ready for Action! Plus an Orgy of the Damned! (May, 1974)

 

 

 

 

 

1001 Forbidden Secrets of the Vicious Virgin Jungle! Where Shame is Unknown! (May, 1948)

 

 

 
Apparently, these South Sea and Far East Goona Goona flicks were a genre all by themselves. Who knew, right? Well, anyways, depending on which translation you believe, Goona Goona either refers to a potent aphrodisiac or some kind of evil spell. Hunh … On second thought, that might be considered the same thing in some circles. But not mine. And these films, about a baker’s dozen of stock and travelogue footage-fueled exploitaters mostly concerned themselves with the same nookie nookie. This mondo double feature of rehashed releases then continues with a trip to Africa, specifically a safari through the Belgian Congo, for a peek at the taboos of the local tribes — in a National Geographic sense, if you know what I mean.

Goona Goona a/k/a Kriss (1932) Andre Roosevelt and Armand Denis Productions :: First Division Pictures / P: Armand Denis, Andre Roosevelt / D: Armand Denis, Andre Roosevelt / W: Andre Roosevelt / C: Al Friedlander / E: Al Friedlander / M: Thomas de Hartmann, Marcel Devaux

Africa Speaks (1930) Walter Futter Productions :: Colorado African Expedition :: Columbia Pictures / P: Paul L. Hoefler, Walter Futter / D: Walter Futter / W: Walter Futter / C: Paul L. Hoefler / E: Walter Futter / S: Harald Austin, Paul L. Hoefler, Lowell Thomas

Just for Kicks … Not for Kids! (September, 1978)

 

 

 

 
If being shot by cult-fave Ray Dennis Steckler isn’t enough to bring you to something like The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio, where our artificial stud’s you-know-what grows instead of his nose when he gets randy, well, what if I told you Dyanne Thorne played his Fairy Godmother, whose spells usually backfire leaving her to run around in the buff. That’s right: it’s the She-Wolf of the SS by way of Walt Disney. Get thee to the adult video store! And while you’re there, you might as well check out Bill Osco’s Alice in Wonderland, his follow up to the equally demented Flesh Gordon, where cute-as-a-button Kristine DeBell plays Alice as a walking erectile-dysfunction cure-all. Trust me. You don’t wanna know what Humpty Dumpty broke. Now send in the dancing nurses! And if you listen real close, that sound you just heard was Carlo Collodi’s and Lewis Carroll’s graves detonating.

The Erotic Adventures of Pinocchio (1971) Eve Productions :: Cinépix Film Properties / P: Chris Warfield / AP: Lawrence M. Daley, Nicholas Wowchuk / D: Corey Allen / W: Chris Warfield, Corey Allen, Carlo Collodi (novel) / C: Ray Dennis Steckler / E: Tom Conlon / M: John Barber / S: Alex Roman, Monica Gayle, Karen Smith, Dyanne Thorne

Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976) Cruiser Productions :: General National Enterprises / P: Bill Osco / D: Bud Townsend / W: Bucky Searles, Lewis Carroll (novel) / C: Joseph Bardo / E: Shaun Walsh / M: Bucky Searles / S: Kristine DeBell, Bucky Searles, Gila Havana, Alan Novak

All the Excitement the Screen Can Hold! Something Had to Explode! (September, 1959)

 

 

 

 
From the guys who brought you IT! The Terror from Beyond Space and Curse of the Faceless Man! What? Wait! Come back! Whatareyatalkinabout!? Those were awesome, you heathens! Okay, okay … Faceless Man kinda stunk. A lot. Anyways, here, producer Robert Kent and director Eddie L. Cahn chuck the monsters for a Mamie Van Doren fueled crime pic and a kooky co-ed jailbreak classic.

Riot in a Juvenile Prison (1959) Robert E. Kent Productions :: United Artists / P: Robert E. Kent / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Orville H. Hampton / C: Maury Gertsman / E: Edward Mann / M: Emil Newman / S: Jerome Thor, Marcia Henderson, Dorothy Provine, Scott Marlowe, Ann Doran

Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959) Imperial Pictures :: United Artsts / P: Robert E. Kent / D: Edward L. Cahn / W: Jerry Sackheim, Paul Gangelin, Robert E. Kent / C: Kenneth Peach / E: Fred Feitshans / M: Buddy Bregman / S: Mamie Van Doren, Gerald Mohr, Lee Van Cleef, Paul Fix, Elaine Edwards

Ringing in the New Year :: A New Concept in Terror and Sudden Shocks! Also Free Ham Salad Sandwiches. (December, 1962)

 

 

 

 

Loaded with Adult Emotions! You Won’t Believe it Until You See it! (July, 1951)

 

 

 

 
Among the young female hellions being used and abused by the corrupt and sadistic reformatory system in our first feature are both Anne Francis and Rita “Rosita” Moreno, both making their screen debuts, whom crusading doctor Paul Henreid tries to reach with a carrot instead of a stick — well, make that a carrot instead of a fire-hose. What Sinister Secret Surrounds Their Fate? You won’t believe it until you see it! As for our second feature, both the title and the ad campaign betray the true nature of this tale of what lengths a newlywed will go to to avenge a husband who was murdered by a carjackers just after they leave the chapel.

So Young, So Bad (1950) Danziger Productions Ltd.:: United Artists / P: Edward J. Danziger, Harry Lee Danziger / D: Bernard Vorhaus, Edgar G. Ulmer / W: Jean Rouverol, Bernard Vorhaus / C: Don Malkames / E: Carl Lerner / M: Robert W. Stringer / S: Paul Henreid, Catherine McLeod, Grace Coppin, Cecil Clovelly, Anne Francis, Rita Moreno

Missing Women (1951) Republic Pictures / P: Stephen Auer / D: Philip Ford / W: John K. Butler / C: John MacBurnie / E: Harold Minter / M: Stanley Wilson / S: Penny Edwards, John Alvin, James Millican, Robert Shayne

So Brutally Frank! So Shocking! So True! It Sears the Screen with its Life Shattering Story (March, 1944)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
None Shall Escape (1944) Columbia Pictures / P: Samuel Bischoff / AP: Burt Kelly / D: André De Toth / W: Lester Cole, Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than / C: Lee Garmes / E: Charles Nelson / M: Ernst Toch / S: Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Henry Travers, Erik Rolf, Ruth Nelson