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A Night to Dismember [DVD]

A Night to Dismember [DVD]

Only the most ardent exploitation and fringe cinema fanatics would argue that Doris Wishman is a good filmmaker in any sense of the word, but she is nothing if not opportunistic. Having gotten her start in 1960 by jumping on the nudist-exploitation bandwagon early in the cycle with Hideout in the Sun, the self-taught filmmaker became one of the most prolific independent female producer-dir ... ...

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