This 36-minute documentary offers a nice overview on maverick Do-It-Yourself indie auteur Nick Phillips and his career as an exploitation filmmaker. Phillips talks about his showman father who came from Siberia and made a living as a roadshow man going from town to town showing low-budget pictures. Among the other subjects Phillips discusses are working as an extra on "The Misfits" with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, his debut movie "Nudes on Credit," shooting without permits, casting agent Hal Guthu (who reportedly discovered Demi Moore), how much bare skin could be should in pictures from the early 1960's and onward, adding redeeming social values to his films in order to avoid censorship problems, the Mitchell brothers of "Behind the Green Door" fame, adult movie theaters are now sadly a thing of the past, shooting without sound because it was both faster and still a valid way to tell a story, cutting negatives from 35mm work prints, and that films last forever. Loaded with choice clips from various Phillips films, it's worth a watch for fans of Phillips and his work.
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