Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Paperback Procession: The Radley Metzger Edition


"As a genre, the 'sexploitation' films of the early and middle Sixties more than lived up to their name; they exploited not only sex but also their actors and their audiences. The one great exception to this standard was Radley Metzger's Audubon Films. Metzger -- first as a distributor and then, concurrently, as a director -- did for sex films in the Sixties what Playboy had done for sex magazines in the Fifties. His movies were classier, more literate, better-made, and blessed with women who looked as if they could communicate desire without carrying disease."

                                          -- Richard Corliss in Film Comment, 1973


Camille 2,000
by Sebastian Grant
Award, 1969
Novelization


Carmen, Baby
by Sebastian Grant
Award, 1968
Novelization


The Cat and the Canary
by Gerry Kingsley
Dale, 1978
Novelization


Her and She and Him...
by Lisa March
Audubon Ace, 1970
Novelization
(Film a.k.a. CLAUDE ET GRETA, LES LIAISONS PARTICULIÈRES,
and ANY TIME, ANYWHERE)


I Spit on Your Grave
by Boris Vian
Audubon Ace, 1971
Movie tie-in of J'irai Cracher sur Vos Tombes
(1959 film - U.S. release in 1963)


The Image
by Jean de Berg [Catherine Robbe-Grillet]
Grove Press, 1975
Movie tie-in of L'Image with b&w photos
(Film a.k.a. THE PUNISHMENT OF ANNE)


The Laughing Woman
by Hadrian Keene
Audubon Ace, 1970
Novelization
(Film a.k.a. THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN)


The Libertine
by Jacapo Massimo
Award, 1969
Novelizaton


The Lickerish Quartet
by Radley Metzger
Audubon, 1970
Screenplay with b&w photos


Madame O.
by T. Horoku
Audubon Ace, 1970
Novelization


Thérése and Isabelle
by Violette Leduc
Dell, 1968
Movie tie-in of Thérèse et Isabelle with b&w photos

2 comments:

  1. Any of these available on Kindle ?

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  2. the odd one out -- CAT AND THE CANARY, based on a 1922 stage play.

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