Girls, Girls, Girls of the 1970s

Secret Key Motion Pictures

All Region NTSC

There seems to be a revival in interest in these early erotica films. They occupy an important place in film history. For the first time more explicit full length films were being shown in U.S. cinemas rather than quickie one-reelers meant for showing in your mate’s garage one Saturday afternoon. This collection is representative of those early “grindhouse” films. One film, The Sexpert (1972) is little more than a set of one-reelers tied together with a minimal plot and dreadful acting, but then acting wasn’t why you went to see these films.

Even in the tits-n-bum category they are tame by today’s standards but they would have been regarded as fairly raunchy in their day. Although you could show breasts (and were expected to) a glimpse of p***s (we don’t want to offend our more delicate readers, do we?) was definitely out.

The films in the collection are The Sexpert, Picture Book of Love, Ski Party, Leid in Hawaii, and School of Love. They lack the sophistication of the European equivalents of the time but they were about ten years behind the Germans or French in producing erotic films. For a homegrown very low budget product they weren’t too bad. They served the market for many years and gradually led to the higher quality feature erotic films that are still classics today.

The technical quality of the early films was rather poor so don’t expect great film-to-DVD transfers, in spite of the “Enhanced Edition” on each title. In some ways the poor transfers add to the ambience of the films, making them look a little more sleazy if that’s possible. So put on your dirty raincoat, hit the “Grindhouse” button, sit back and relive your 70s.

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