Secrets of Sex (1969, released 1970) aka Bizarre is a British Sex film, directed by former experimental filmmaker and William Burroughs collaborator Antony Balch. The film is narrated by an Egyptian Mummy.
After directing the Burroughs influenced shorts: Towers Open Fire (1963) and The Cut Ups (1967), Balch approached producer Richard Gordon in 1968 to direct an anthology film running just over an hour, titled Multiplication. After the script wa...
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Secrets of Sex (1969, released 1970) aka Bizarre is a British Sex film, directed by former experimental filmmaker and William Burroughs collaborator Antony Balch. The film is narrated by an Egyptian Mummy.
After directing the Burroughs influenced shorts: Towers Open Fire (1963) and The Cut Ups (1967), Balch approached producer Richard Gordon in 1968 to direct an anthology film running just over an hour, titled Multiplication. After the script was rewritten to bring the film up to feature length and the budget doubled (32,000 pounds) the film was shot over 14 weeks in 1969 and released in February 1970. A huge success in the UK, the film ran for six months at the Jacey Cinema in Piccadilly Circus alone, during which time it recouped its entire production cost. The film remained in circulation in the UK throughout the 1970s sometimes appearing in an edited down half an hour version that played on the second half of double-bills.
Five writers are credited with the script, although...
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