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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SCHLOCK: THE SECRET HISTORY OF AMERICAN (DVD
EAN: 0825307910292
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Manufacturer: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2003
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 42422
Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In the tradition of A Decade Under The Influence Schlock: The Secret History Of American Movies surveys one of the most fertile yet underappreciated eras of American cinema: the 1950s and '60s. During this period a talented group of independent filmmakers churned out scores of imaginative no-holds-barred exploitation films and b-movies that thrilled drive-in audiences pushed creative boundaries and offered the perfect training ground for nascent filmmakers like Peter Bogdanovich and Francis Ford Coppola. This fascinating documentary examines the golden age of schlock through interviews with the era's key players including legendary producer Sam Ark off sexploitation queen Doris Washman b-movie maestro Roger Carmen and many more schlock icons.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 825307910292 Manufacturer No: 91029-7
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - fairly entertaining doc on SCHLOCK
Header pretty much says it. B-movie lovers should enjoy this one. Found the visit to Harry Novak's studio worth the price of admission alone, although they did leave out low-budget filmmakers like Andy Milligan, Brownrigg
(the guy who made Don't Look in the Basement) Ed Wood & some others. On the other hand, you get interviews with the one and only Roger Corman, Sam Arkoff, Doris Wishman, David Friedman, etc., etc.--not to mention plenty of T & A footage.
Like I said: ... Read More
Rating:  - A Good Film About Bad Films
This movie should be sold in that mail order catalogue: "Things You Never Knew Existed." Where the heck did they find all these wacko pictures, and even wackier filmmakers. Doris Wishman is like if your jewish grandma was a hell's angel. David Friedman is like if Abbott and Costello were the same guy -- sharpie and baggy pants comedian in one. A few vomitous images (including actual birth footage by -- yecch -- Caesarean section) I could do without though. But I felt like this movie was a passport ... Read More
Rating: - A documentary on the rise and fall of the Exploitation films
This documentary written, directed and edited by Ray Greene features clips of independent movies made in the 1950s and 1960s at the height (relatively speaking) of exploitation movies in the United States. Along with the clips, "Schlock! The Secret History of the American Movies" has interviews with the people who made these movies. You should recognize at least some of what whizzes by here (e.g., "Nude on the Moon," "Carnival of Soul"") and if you have any familiarity with the genre you will recognize ... Read More
Rating: - Bad Girls Go To Hell Indeed
Do they let us contradict people on this site? Because I'm looking down the comments and I see one guy who is saying this movie misspells the word "SCHLOCK" (I'm Jewish, it's a yiddishism, and they spelled it correctly, "SCHLOCK," not "shlock" as this incorrect spellchecker viewer says it should be) and another guy who says that sexploitation movies aren't part of the "schlock" genre (this despite the fact that the most articulate interview subject in this movie -- an honest to God theoretician of the exploitation ... Read More
Rating: - Worlds of Revelation for the Unititated
It's amusing to read down the reviews and see the usual angels on the head of a pin discussions about inclusion and exclusion that seem to always occur between schlock devotees, along with the justifiable praise this wickedly amusing documentary deserves. This stuff is all subjective, so I'll just state my opinion, which is that this movie is splendid and that the filmmakers got it pretty much exactly right in the balance they strike between teenage exploitation and the "adults only" variety -- I clocked it, and it ... Read More
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