
On Apes, Racism, and Other Shoddy Scams in 1930 African Adventure Film, ‘Ingagi’
Restored ‘Ingagi’ (1930) is an important influential film fit for neither man nor beast.
Restored ‘Ingagi’ (1930) is an important influential film fit for neither man nor beast.
If truth is stranger than fiction then the truth about some films, such as the Charles Manson film The Other Side of Madness, feels as strange as reality ever gets.
Many formats have come and gone and streaming competes, to a degree, but these best classic films offered on Blu-ray in 2020 prove irresistible.
As with so many of these movies about daughters who go astray, Test Tube Babies blames the uptight mothers who never told them about S-E-X. Meanwhile, Guilty Parents exploits poor impulse control and chorus girls showing their underwear.
Films by Sam Newfield and W. Merle Connell in Kino Lorber's Forbidden Fruit series show how exploitation films are blueprints for mainstream cinema.