Movies: David F. Friedman

Savage! Sadistic! Thrill hungry! When it came to independent filmmaking in the sunshine state, William Grefé was the wildest of the wild! During the 1960s and '70s, the Miami-based producer/director transformed the darkest corners of the Florida swam...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation...

A man imagines that everybody he sees is naked. He seeks a psychiatrist's help for a cure....

An innocent teenager is blackmailed into nude modeling for a photographer in league with a gang boss who sells illicit photos of terrorized young women....

A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry....

Hollywood is a town of tinsel and glamour; but there is another Hollywood, a place where maverick independent exploitation filmmakers went toe to toe with the big guys and came out on top....

Five women explain to the police the events leading up to the murder of their roommate, an exotic dancer....

When her nudist lifestyle is discovered, a schoolteacher must defend herself before the Board of Education. A male colleague accompanies her to the nudist camp to see for himself exactly what goes on there....

A man pretends to be an imbecile so that he may work at an all-girls school....

A struggling Hollywood actress is dragged by her agent to judge a beauty pageant in a nudist colony....

In Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1962, a poor, young, single mother is impregnated by a womanizing has-been singer. Her mother tries to force her to give the child away but our heroine isn't sure. As she tries to solve her problems she receives assistance ...

A teacher with an interest in the feminine form visits a nudist camp, and then dreams of naked women....

A Chicago private detective and his assistant travel to a Florida nudist camp to find a missing husband. Both are soon become embroiled with the life of nudists while falling in love with each other....

A documentary about the history of exploitation films that focuses on the careers of legendary producers David F. Friedman and Dan Sonney....

Some rednecks get revenge for something. I assume....

Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown, along with scenes from and trailers for some of these films....

Dr. David Stone is a scientist with a special interest in legends about the Okaloosa wilderness, where a violent, man-like beast is said to dwell, and where many campers have disappeared over the years. When local moneyman Milton St. John offers to f...

A short silent comedy in which a young actress enters a casting director's office for an audition. The director (loveable Bob Cresse) appears to be bored by her demonstration of acting and cuts to the nitty gritty. The actress is unabashed and proced...