Don Schain(1941-2015)
- Producer
- Production Manager
- Director
Writer/director/producer Don Schain made his feature debut with the
softcore outing
The Love Object (1970). A former
Manhattan movie theater manager, Schain and his partner
Ralph T. Desiderio conceived the idea
for the notoriously trashy "Ginger" exploitation picture trilogy in
1970. Schain wrote and directed all three of these immensely popular
cult films: Ginger (1971),
The Abductors (1972) and
Girls Are for Loving (1973).
The "Ginger" flicks starred brassy blonde
Cheri Caffaro as a sexy yet tough female
James Bond-style crimefighter who used harsh and aggressive methods to
nail the villains. Don subsequently directed Caffaro in the equally
sleazy drive-in items
A Place Called Today (1972)
and Too Hot to Handle (1977).
Schain and Caffaro were married for a while, but eventually divorced.
Don subsequently remarried. Schain produced a large volume of
successful made-for-TV films; he did most of said television movies
for the Disney Channel. Don frequently collaborated with director
Blair Treu. He was the president of the Motion
Picture Association of Utah and lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. Schain died at age 74 on December 26, 2015.
