Of course the T&A cut scenes were the real reason this piece of sexploitation was shot at all. Without them the only reason for watching it is the nostalgia one living in NYC at the time may have for places, characters, styles. The rest is pure trash, featuring the worst acting ability by main and secondary players, atrocious japanese songs (spoiling the only piece of this crap worth saving: the initial credits James Bond Style with the nude female dancing) and the plot invented on the spot. 1/10
Wrong, it was a drugsploitation film from the get go, (watch the director interview),
Hollywood wouldn't be able touch a subject like this at that time. And it really captures a microcosm of NYC in 1965,
What do you want him to say to somebody caring to interview him? That it was sexploitation from the start? And then whom would the flick have appealed to without the sex?
What I said: nostalgia. Hollywood wouldn't have touched the subject only because they thought nobody cared. But movies on drugs had been made before and right after this one. It was sex that Hollywood banned and it was sex that the off-Hollywood peddled at the time. But then you may believe it is pure chance that the word "love" is featured in both titles and that it was double billed with "The Long Hot Night"
Wrong, Actually, this is from the lead actor Ratray's interview (on the disc). The film was produced by get this three Harvard graduates, who wanted to make a drugs-ploitation flick and that's what they made. Ratray says that a month or two later he was called back to do additional footage, basically he said it was a lot of rolling around with naked women. The reason was that the Supreme Court declared New York State's censorship laws unconstitutional. So the producers thought they could make more money with a drug and sexploitation flick. Ratray's states that when he went to do the additional scenes he noticed that the director David E. Durston wasn't present. That's when he discovered that the producers took the film away from Durston.Oh, come on. Nudity in flicks had been around at least since Mr. Teas and what was bad for NYS could have been good for California, they could have made a double version. BTW Flesh and Lace was made the same year. And the whole drug affair takes about 10 minutes of the whole affair.QuoteThis was about LSD, and what was unique is there wasn't any Motion Picture Production Code to make sure that the lead actor Ratray got dead or went crazy, or what ever moralistic comeuppance the powers that be demanded, i.e. like the end of Easy Rider, god forbid they show no consequences.So much about LSD that they didn't even think to put it in the title. I guess they didn't even know what LSD was. In fact, as you said, the director took some only prior to start shooting.
This was about LSD, and what was unique is there wasn't any Motion Picture Production Code to make sure that the lead actor Ratray got dead or went crazy, or what ever moralistic comeuppance the powers that be demanded, i.e. like the end of Easy Rider, god forbid they show no consequences.
What the fuck do you want a documentary about LSD, forgedaboudit.
It is what it is an underground film,
No, I'd expect a movie about it. This isn't.
Horse Shit,