SEX AND BUTTERED POPCORN (1989) ¢ ¢
D: Sam Harrison
A hokey documentary on exploitation films of the '30s, '40s and '50s, the ones that promised sleaze while preaching salvation, tawdry tales in which much skin was exposed (sometimes) and innocent lives were invariably ruined by marijuana, unplanned pregnancy and venereal disease. The movies themselves were so bad that making fun of them seems redundant. As art they were negligible, but they were a part of the cinematic landscape, and because they were produced for peanuts and shrewdly marketed, they made money, which means somebody had to be out there watching them. Grindhouse moguls Dan Sonney and David F. Friedman are the main witnesses here. A jocular Ned Beatty narrates.
Ned Beatty
(1937-2021)
