Career Bed/Sex by Advertisement

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

1960s sexploitation at its most deliriously sleazy is the order of the day on this double-feature DVD from Something Weird Video. Career Bed and Sex by Advertisement were both directed by Joel M. Reed, most famous for the perverse 42nd Street standby Bloodsucking Freaks, and they display a grimy humor and palpable enthusiasm for the sexual underbelly of New York City that's wildly entertaining. Thankfully, both films are served well on this disc. Career Bed and Sex by Advertisement have been transferred to DVD in their original full-frame aspect ratio of 1.33:1, and both are well photographed by the standards of the genre, with a good gray scale throughout. The print for Career Bed displays some noticeable wear here and there (mostly in the form of brief emulsion scratches), but is more than watchable, while Sex by Advertisement was mastered from a very clean source and looks all but mint. The audio for both movies has been mastered in Dolby Digital Stereo (retaining the original monophonic sound mixes), with English-language dialogue and no subtitles or multiple language options. Bonus materials include the original trailer for Career Bed, previews of six other sleaze epics, a truly warped bonus short entitled The Filth Shop (in which "Lola Lust" and Satan discuss stealing souls through sexual temptation while we watch clips from a number of softcore features), and a gallery of sexploitation artwork accompanied by vintage radio spots. While Career Bed and Sex by Advertisement aren't among the better-known titles in the '60s sexploitation pantheon, they rank with the most entertaining, and film fans with a taste for the low life will get their kicks with this disc. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Screen: Black and White
• Audio: Dolby Digital Mono
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Features:
  • Digitally remastered
  • Original theatrical trailer for Career Bed
  • Bonus sleazeball trailers for Fluctuations, Hot Erotic Dreams, The Molesters, The Smut Peddler, Take All You Can Get, and the Ultimate Degenerate
  • Lola Lust uses a sex store to tempt a young man in the foul featurette The Filth Shop
  • Gallery of sick sixties sex stills with audio oddities

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Ann Harris

• Director:

  Joel Reed

• Screenwriter:

  Joel Reed