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is a sexploitation movie, we expected the ratio of skin to action to be roughly equivalent, but the hunting scenes take up only about twenty minutes, while sex consumes about thirty minutes, a couple of sexual assaults take about ten, and bad dialogue fills out the rest of the running time.
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in California. The film's budget is estimated to have been around $ 30,000, and the crew was reportedly made up of "less than ten" people. According to director Stu Segall, the film was "very cheaply made", with the crew making around $ 50 a day and the cast members making around $ 150.
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area of California over the course of three days, and was released in the United States in 1972. The only surviving print of the film, from a 1976 re-release, appears to contain at least two instances of missing footage. This print was used for a
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part was no big deal to us—we were all 24, 25-year-old kids doin' this (except for the guys like Dave Friedman, Ted and the cameraman). We were a bunch of young ne'er-do-wells just makin' movies however we could make 'em."
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causes him to "wish that Segall had slipped his sexploitation bonds and received more opportunities to make 'straight' films". He concluded: "while not always 'fun' watching,
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During filming one day, actor Norman Fields swallowed a bee before he was able to finish his scenes. He was taken to a hospital and returned to the set several hours later.
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who invites employees from a modeling agency to his estate, where he hunts them. The film stars Richard Smedley,
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offers just enough, both sexploitation- and Most Dangerous Game-wise, to keep viewers from feeling one."
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is just gratuitous and haphazard. Its failure is probably why it was later released as
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criticized the film's structure, writing: "Even though
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Index

The Woman Hunt

Ted Paramore
Lori Rose
Sandy Dempsey
sexploitation film
Stu Segall
Ted Paramore
short story
The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
big-game hunter
Lori Rose
Sandy Dempsey
Bronson Canyon
DVD
Vinegar Syndrome
Lori Rose
T&A
35 mm
Bronson Canyon
Hollywood Hills
DVD
Vinegar Syndrome
double feature
Senn 2013
"The Best Adaptations of 'The Most Dangerous Game' You've Never Seen"
/Film

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