New Arrivals: Films of Doris Wishman

“Some of the most notorious names in exploitation are well known, among them Roger Corman, Russ Meyer… One of the least known was also one of the best: Doris Wishman.” — Manohla Dargis, LA Weekly. Tonight, Night Flight Plus is thrilled to present ten films from pioneering filmmaker Doris Wishman, an essential voice in American exploitation cinema. Beginning her self-taught filmmaking career at the age of 58, Wishman went on to create some of the most unique films to emerge from New York’s 42nd Street grindhouse circuit. Spanning 1961 to 1974, this collection showcases a wide range of her genre work, from nudie-cuties and roughies to psychotronic thrillers, science-fiction oddities, and more.

Deadly Weapons

A 1974 American, Independent Classic directed and produced by pioneering exploitation film director, Doris Wishman. It stars burlesque performer Chesty Morgan (Double Agent 73) as Crystal and Richard Towers (Last House on the Left) as scheming boyfriend, Larry. Harry Reems (Deep Throat co-stars. When ambitious Larry finds himself on the wrong side of a gun for tr...Read More

The Amazing Transplant

In The Amazing Transplant, 42nd Street grindhouse audiences were treated to the first film about a penis transplant in this over-the-top roughie from cult cinema's Queen of Sexploitation, Doris Wishman. Arthur João Fernandes, Submission undergoes a penis transplant unknowing that his new appendage came from a serial rapist. Arthur soon goes berserk and he beings to ...Read More

Keyholes Are For Peeping

Keyholes Are For Peeping is a broad comedy that served as the cinematic swan song for onetime Jerry Lewis imitator and Duke Mitchell comrade Sammy Petrillo< (Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla). Here he plays Stanley Bebble, a fledgling marriage counselor living with his nagging mother (also played by Petrillo but voiced by director Doris Wishman) who sets up shop...Read More

Hideout in the Sun

Bank robbers kidnap a young woman and force her to bring them to a nudist colony.

Nude on the Moon

From the era of "Nature" movies comes this 1961 science-fantasy nudist film co-written and co-directed by exploitation legends, Doris Wishman and Raymond Phelan (under the shared pseudonyms "O. O. Miller" and "Anthony Brooks"). Scientist Dr. Jeff Huntley (Lester Brown in his only screen credit) inherits a fortune and invests it in the development of a rocket ship, b...Read More

Bad Girls Go To Hell

Meg is a Boston housewife, who is assaulted by a custodian at her apartment building. Killing him during the attack, she flees to New York City. She is then befriended by a series of people with whom she becomes emotionally and carnally involved, all the while trying to evade a narrowing police dragnet. Joe Sarno starlets Gigi Darlene and Darlene Bennett star alongs...Read More

A Taste of Flesh

Cult director Doris Wishman brings a queer perspective to the Noir classic Suddenly in her quintessential roughie, A Taste of Flesh. A lesbian couple become hostages in their own apartment when assassins use it as a vantage point to take out a diplomat at a hotel across the street. The entire film is shot in one apartment with only five actors, making this Wishman's...Read More

Love Toy

He knew all the games... she was the plaything! Nothing is sacred in a Doris Wishman production, and here a compulsive gambler stakes his own nubile, teen daughter in losing hand, dooming her to a night as his opponent's sex slave. Bernard Marcel (The Amazing Transplant) as the gleeful opponent and grindhouse goddess Uta Erickson (The Kiss of Her Flesh) as his prize...Read More

Double Agent 73

Secret agent Chesty Morgan hides a camera in her mammaries to spy on the members of an international drug ring in this Doris Wishman grindhouse oddity -so named for the star's impressive bosom measurements. There is more than meets the eye in this crass parody of the Secret Agent genre for which cult director John Waters included a clip in his mainstream hit, Serial...Read More

Diary of a Nudist

Newspaper editor Arthur Sherwood is on a hunting trip when he accidentally stumbles upon a nudist camp in the woods. He is very much shocked by this and decides to send reporter Stacy Taylor to the camp so she can write an expose on the camp and have it shut down. However, much to her surprise, Stacy finds that she enjoys the nudist lifestyle and writes some very po...Read More