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MAU MAU SEX SEX

Ted Bonnitt's affable documentary chronicles the careers of retired sexploitation movie partners Dan Sonney and David F. Friedman, who gave us such softcore quasi-classics as The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill (1966), Thar She Blows! (1969), Bummer! (1972), and The Erotic Adventures of Zorro (1972). Moving from naive '50s "nudies" -- bare bottoms, bosoms, and volleyballs in nudist camps -- to, in the early '60s, they made countless movies, many of them still available from Something Weird Video. Some are sick, some funny, some mildly sexy. All are extremely low-budget. Friedman boasts that he put more time and effort into his ad campaigns and previews than into the scripts. No one will dispute that. Were audiences disappointed when the Friedman/Sonney movies proved less "sexsational" than the come-ons had promised? The unapologetic duo laughed all the way to their money launderers. At the Cable Car.

By Gerald Peary

Issue Date: October 26 - November 1, 2001