Mondo Trasho (1969) is a 16mm black and white film by Baltimore, Maryland filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary and Mink Stole. It contains very little dialogue, the story being told mostly through musical cues.
Waters, in a 2008 interview, stated that the songs used in the film were taken right out of his own record collection. Waters says he did not pay the proper licensing fees to use these songs because he c...
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Mondo Trasho (1969) is a 16mm black and white film by Baltimore, Maryland filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary and Mink Stole. It contains very little dialogue, the story being told mostly through musical cues.
Waters, in a 2008 interview, stated that the songs used in the film were taken right out of his own record collection. Waters says he did not pay the proper licensing fees to use these songs because he could not afford to. It is because of this, Waters says, that Mondo Trasho remains unreleased, as the still un-secured music rights would be too prohibitively expensive to clear.
Waters was almost arrested during the film's production for illegally shooting a scene involving a nude hitchhiker on the campus of Johns Hopkins University. According to John Waters in This Filthy World, everyone was arrested except Divine.
The film's title refers to a series of semi-related quasi-documentary films that were popular during the 1960s: Mondo Cane, Mondo...
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