First mainstream with these themes?
I am wondering is this the first American mainstream to movie to show sex, rape, hustling, etc?
sharePre-Code (1930's) films had very risque themes, you'd be amazed.
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I am wondering is this the first American mainstream to movie to show sex, rape, hustling, etc?
Not even close. Suddenly, Last Summer and Peyton Place make this movie look tame by comparison.
Baby Doll, too. There's a scene in that movie where the two characters are on a swing, but it's incredibly sexually suggestive--enough to where it was probably one of the reasons why the movie was banned.
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'Not even close. Suddenly, Last Summer and Peyton Place make this movie look tame by comparison.'
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Those films were not rated X, so MC does not look tame by comparison.
Except that Peyton Place was an overripe soap opera and Suddenly, Last Summer was a lurid, overheated interpretation of some kind of ultimate in masochism. Though Tennessee Williams is one of my all-time favorites!
PRIVATE PROPERTY (1960) played art house theaters in 1960. Two drifters (Warren Oates and Corey Allen) move to the suburbs and sexually target an unhappily married woman next door. However, the two drifters have a kind of OF MICE AND MEN relationship, and it's suggested that one of them is secretly gay. That was heady stuff for an American film released in 1960.
The film has been absent for decades, but is due to be released on Blu-ray in the summer of 2016 by Cinelicious Pics, a small Blu-ray label.