Friday, May 3, 2024

SCUM OF THE EARTH 1963 (SOMETHING WEIRD)

David Friedman produced this Hershell G. Lewis directed saga.

Shot in two weeks in Florida right after the duo made "Blood Feast", this is quite a different kind of film. William Kerwin stars as Harmon Johnson, a photographer of sleazy pictures for a nudie company run by Lang (Larry Aberwood).

As sale start toslide the company wants some new faces and they enlist a model, Sandy (Sandra Sinclair) to get a young girl named Kim Sherwood (Louise Downs) to pose for them.

They trick her and before long they are blackmailing her to do nude pictures, which are then sold all over the country.

During a shoot a muscle bound idiot named Ajax (Craig Maudslay) attacks Kim and Harmon kills him with a baseball bat. This is a very odd film, but a good one if you like this kind of stuff.

It is pretty cool to see some of the cast from "Blood Feast" in this movie which is so non horror. There are both clothed and nude versions of this movie and the one I saw on TUBI did have some nudity, but it's very tame.

The happy ending doesn't really fit the movie, but believe it or not it works. If all you have seen in the Lewis made gor films, you might want to see this. It's different for him and not too bad of a film.

The rest of the cast includes Mal Arnold, Christy Foushee and Doug Brennen.

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