Thursday, February 21, 2019

Rare! Classic! Rated X!

The ad below from the October 10, 1969 Columbus Citizen-Journal features three movies I'd never heard of. 1) Uncle Tom's Cabin was apparently a cut-down English dub of a German movie from 1965 with Herbert Lom as Simon Legree. Kroger Babb, listed in the ad as "presenter," was a producer of exploitation films in the 40s and 50s, his most famous being a sex-ed film called Mom and Dad (he also did a Reefer Madness-type film called Wild Weed).

2) Indian Paint was a 1965 Western with Jay Silverheels (Tonto on TVs The Lone Ranger) and Johnny Crawford who played Chuck Connor's son on The Rifleman, and was also an original Mouseketeer;  3) Best House in London was a British sex farce with a bit of boob and bottom, but rated X mostly, I guess, for the subject matter, prostitution, in particular, the setting-up by the government of a brothel in Victorian England. I love finding these movies that have left little to no pop culture footprint.

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