Classic Cult and Exploitation Flicks
Here's a fun list - classic cult and exploitation movies I've seen and reviewed from the 1930's right up through 1970, dealing with alcohol, drugs and sex. For what it's worth, the list is in IMDb rating order. These are a blast!
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- DirectorLeonard KastleMartin ScorseseDonald VolkmanStarsShirley StolerTony Lo BiancoMary Jane HigbyAn obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs."We'll work our future out together."
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsPeter FondaSusan StrasbergBruce DernA disillusioned TV-commercial director is guided by his friend through an LSD trip, during which he evaluates his identity and his relationships with women."You've got to turn off your mind and relax. Then just float downstream."
- DirectorEdward BerndsStarsGloria CastilloRoss FordEdd ByrnesA young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl he had just met. He threatens her life if she talks, so when she refuses to tell what she knows, she is sent to reform school."A stool pigeon is the lowest thing there is!"
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsWilliam KerwinLouise DowneLawrence J. AberwoodA naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded."If you don't go along with these morons, they're gonna place your bosom all over this town!"
- DirectorVictor HalperinStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Jeanette LoffJudith BarrieA cautionary tale. Ellen's past as a "party girl" is carefully hidden but may be exposed when another party girl tricks her fiance into marriage."Oh, you'll do alright, they'll like you."
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsWilliam FarnumTom SantschiPatty Lou LyndA man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter."Charity..., for a drunkard's family!"
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsMary AinsleeBetty CompsonWilly CastelloA rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring."OK folks, the party's on!"
- DirectorDorothy DavenportMelville ShyerStarsHelen FosterNell O'DayGlen BolesA young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion."Please, please don't hate me for..., for what's happened."
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsMartha ChapinWheeler OakmanBryant WashburnYoung girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts."Have a good time dear, don't get in too deep."
- DirectorRobert BrandtStarsMark MillerLars EkborgAnita ThallaugAmerican reporter doing a story on Swedish nightlife gets involved with a drug-addicted nightclub singer."If you are playing games with me, I play very rough."
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsJoy ReynoldsGeri MoffattMarko PerriA girl visiting her sister in Hollywood hopes for a modeling career, but is tricked by pimps into working at a brothel."Well make room Big Sister, the youngsters are moving in!"
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLuana WaltersArthur GardnerDorothy ShortA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends."Maybe angel face can talk her way out of this one."
- DirectorRobert C. DertanoStarsJoanne ArnoldTimothy FarrellHarry KeatonA sleazy gangster has a gang of young girls commit robberies and prostitution for him by getting them hooked on drugs."Say, what's goin' on around here?"
- DirectorHarry RevierStarsShirley MillsBob BollingerWarner RichmondA schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls."Child marriage must go!"
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLona AndreDonald ReedWheeler OakmanBerrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim."From now on, our policy is to crusade against vice!"
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsLila LeedsAlan BaxterLyle TalbotA chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana."I could turn your life into a nice big beautiful sleigh ride."
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsViolet HiltonDaisy HiltonMario LavalA Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?"It all started as a publicity stunt for the show..."
- DirectorEdward D. Wood Jr.StarsEdward D. Wood Jr.Bela LugosiLyle TalbotA psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne)."Where is the animal instinct in modern civilization?"
- DirectorEdward KayeStarsBetty CompsonMargaret MarquisRobert KellardA pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus."Naughty, naughty, don't ask me too many questions."
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsHarley WoodHugh McArthurPat CarlyleA young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher."We tried some of this jiggle water, let's try this jiggle weed."
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsDorothy ShortKenneth CraigLillian MilesCautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music."Tell your children."
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsLois JanuaryNoel MadisonSheila BromleyA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends.""Hey, I can fix that right up. I've got the grandest headache medicine in the world."
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsJune CarlsonFifi D'OrsayTeala LoringA town is shocked when a high-school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town."Sally, you sure know all the angles."
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsDorothy DukeWilliam ThomasonTimothy FarrellA happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered to be quite scandalous."I don't understand it Doctor, I always thought I was perfectly normal..."
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsVivian McGillRose TapleyAl RigaliThis exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use."... and then it happened, I gave myself to him."