This is a collection of ads from various movies, representing the closest things to grindhouse cinemas that Seattle and Portland had. Nudies, roughies, and the occasional art film ruled the day at these places.
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June 26, 1968 ad (Seattle) WORLD PREMIER!?
Brand of Shame (1968)
A schoolteacher arrives in town with the map to a gold mine. The lesbian dance-hall owner schemes to steal the map.
Director: Byron Mabe
Writers: Gene Radford, David F. Friedman
Stars: Steve Stunning, Cara Peters, Steve Vincent
March 28, 1968 ad (Portland)
Hell-A-Vision (1936)
A series of scenes that comprised both new material (featuring frontal nudity), and old footage from an Italian version of Dante's Inferno (also featuring frontal nudity) and vignettes from the March of Crime series.
Director: Louis Sonney
Writer: Louis Sonney
Stars: John Dillinger, Roy Gardner, Edward Hickman
The Beast That Killed Women (1965)
Panic and fear strike the hearts of the terrorised sun-kissed nudist girls of a once peaceful nudist resort in sun-bleached Miami, when a mysterious, yet menacing intruder manages to find his way in the camp.
Director: Barry Mahon
Writer: Clelle Mahon
Stars: Judy Adler, Juliet Anderson, Janet Banzet
September 23, 1968 ad (Seattle) WORLD PREMIERE!?
Space Thing (1968)
A man is in bed reading Sci-Fi mags, and his frustrated wife, Marge, seduces him. He then falls asleep, and the rest of the movie is a dream. In his dream, the man is from an alternate world and disguises himself as an alien, then boards a spaceship to keep aliens from attacking his planet. James forces a landing on a large asteroid, and everyone runs around topless having sex with each other.
Directors: Byron Mabe, David F. Friedman
Writer: Cosmo Politan
Stars: Karla Conway, Steve Vincent, Merci Montello
July 11, 1968 ad (Seattle)
On occasion, a film was run with a title too risqué to be printed in the newspaper. Alternatively, the movie was so bad that this was the only way to lure people to see it.
