Secrets of Sex

Director: Anthony Balch Anthony Balch

Overview

There's no plot to speak of in this film, just a collection of softcore anecdotes related by an Arabian wise man, who happens to be a mummy. Abandon logic, all ye who enter here.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/12/2010
UPC:	0654930312094
Original Release:	1969
Rating:	R
Source:	Synapse Films
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:32:00
Sales rank:	47,393

Special Features

Audio Commentary with Executive Producer Richard Gordon and Film Historian and Author, Tom Weaver; ; Video Interview with Secrets of Sex Writer, Elliott Stein; ; Theatrical Trailer; Liner Notes

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Peter Carlisle	Colonel X
Kenneth Benda	Sacha Seramona
George Herbert	Steward
Cathy Howard	Burglar
Elliott Stein	Strange Man
Richard Schulman	Actor
Janet Spearman	Actor

Technical Credits

Anthony Balch

John Eliot

Marueen Owen

Martin Locke

Elliott Stein

Anthony Balch	Screenwriter,Producer,Director
John Eliot	Screenwriter
Marueen Owen	Screenwriter
Richard Gordon	Producer,Executive Producer
Martin Locke	Screenwriter
Elliott Stein	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

British filmmaker Anthony Balch, who assembled the classic William S. Burroughs anthology/pastiche Towers Open Fire, directed this delirious exploitation omnibus, a collection of six softcore vignettes filled with warped humor and hosted by a bandaged mummy. Beginning with a ten-minute collage of erotic and psychedelic imagery spotlighting fetish clothes, go-go dancers, and other sexual iconography, the film then moves into its short stories, each dealing with the excessive lengths to which people go to satisfy their erotic desires. The first deals with a female photographer who lures a male model into a torture chamber for what is ostensibly a photo shoot, but ends up as a real torture session. Other tales center on a wealthy old man who desires a son but has a mistress with a rare disease; a deranged woman who has captured her former lovers' souls in her houseplants; a call girl (Sue Bond) whose client wants to involve his pet lizard in their encounter; a female spy (Maria Frost) who breaks into vaults topless; and a female burglar (Cathy Howard) who is caught by the owner of the apartment which she invades (Mike Britton). Balch's cockeyed sense of humor, later highlighted in the peculiar cult favorite Horror Hospital, is the main reason to watch, leavening the film's prurient elements with some knowing cinematic winks provocative enough to interest those with more sophistication than the average punter. George Herbert, Elliott Stein, and Peter Carlisle co-star.