Spring in the Air
In keeping with my contention that these are the daft days, our short season of Forgotten Pre-Codes climaxes with a film that isn’t even a pre-code. It’s certainly forgotten, though –
In keeping with my contention that these are the daft days, our short season of Forgotten Pre-Codes climaxes with a film that isn’t even a pre-code. It’s certainly forgotten, though –
December 30, 2011 at 7:35 am
Apropos random meanderings through cinema history, have you seen Jim and Artie Mitchell’s Behind the Green Door?
December 30, 2011 at 7:59 am
How wonderful to see your post on “One More Spring”. The novel provides the best literary evocation I know of the Great Depression on the eve of FDR’s first inaugural. This is not a famous novel about migrant sharecroppers: it is about the urban Depression my father spoke about many times. Despite residence in a rich and dynamic city, the protagonists felt they were, in the author’s words, people “whose fate was of interest to no one but themselves” . Surfing the web tonight I found a source for “One More Spring” on DVD, and I’m looking forward to finally seeing the film.
December 30, 2011 at 1:26 pm
No… in fact, I haven’t seen any 70s US porno. I’ve seen some Radley Metzger before he went hardcore, and have been meaning to see Gary Graver’s 3am, since Orson Welles did a day or two’s editing on it…
December 30, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Charles — hope you enjoy the film, and glad you were able to find a copy. It probably won’t be pristine, but we’re lucky to be able to see it at all, given Fox’s attitude to their library.
December 30, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Derek Malcolm includes Behind the Green Door in his top 100 films of the century.
December 31, 2011 at 12:06 am
Well, I guess it, and Deep Throat, marked major cultural shifts in America… and I’m sure Behind the Green Door is a better film. How much better, I don’t know…
December 31, 2011 at 3:24 am
Regardless of merit (finding artistic merit in porn is a unenviable task), Deep Throat was a much bigger cultural phenomenon. It was endlessly referenced on television and in other areas during the ’70s. The decade itself was a strange era, when a porn magazine’s rather odious monthly cartoon was well known enough to be a game show answer.
December 31, 2011 at 3:38 am
Been looking at old Dick Cavett Shows, and the topic of porn was obviously a hot one. Weird how little TV could show then, but they were still obsessed with talking about it.