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Is There Sex After Death?
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Wikipedia article
'Is There Sex After Death?' is a 1971 mockumentary and mondo film.
Plot
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation searches out luminary figures in the world of sex. According to the movie, the answer to the title question is: "No, only affection".
Cast
* Alan Abel as Dr. Rogers
* Buck Henry as Dr. Louise Manos
* Marshall Efron as Vince Domino
* Holly Woodlawn as Herself
* Robert Downey, Sr. as Himself
* Jim Moran as Dr. Elevenike
* James Randi as Seance Medium
* Earle Doud as Merkin
* Larry Wolf as Sexbowl Announcer/Seance Spirit
* Mink Stole as Dominatrix
* James Dixon as Richard Nixon
Controversy
On March 12, 1980, the ON TV pay channel aired the film on WXON (channel 20, now WMYD) in Detroit. It was scheduled to air again ten days later, but it did not. WXON station manager Aben Johnson, who was alerted to the film's content (including sex and nudity) by a station employee during its original airing, decided against showing it again, substituting 'Saturday Night Fever' instead. ON TV's policy at the time forbade showing any films with an X rating, for adults only; 'Is There Sex After Death?' was apparently not given a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America at all until 1975, when it was granted an 'R' certificate, making the movie seemingly within ON's standards. Still, WXON never showed the film again on its ON TV affiliate, which closed in 1983.
See also
* List of American films of 1971
References
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