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Maniac / Hollywood Producers & Distributors presents ; story by Hildagarde Esper ; directed by Dwain Esper. Narcotic / produced by Hildagarde Esper ; directed by Vival Sodar't ; story, A.J. Karnopp.
LIBRA DVD 008 222
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Forbidden fruit
- Dwain Esper collection.
- Dwain Esper collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--Drama.
- Sex.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Horror films.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (52 min.; 57 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Sex maniac
- Title on disc surface: Dwain Esper's Maniac and Narcotic
- Dwain Esper's Maniac & Narcotic
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino on Video, [1999]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- "Narcotic is loosely based upon the life of William Davies, an opium-addicted snake oil salesman who was also producer Hildagarde Esper's uncle. This film follows his downward spiral as an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow and swanky drug parties. The film illustrates themes that explicitly violated the Motion Picture Production Code."--Container.
- "Maniac offers a walking tour through the mind of a bona fide lunatic, distorted by fragmented scenes and ugly realities that mimic insanity's own warped perspective. This is actually a Depression-era rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," injected with catfights, nudity, necrophilia, and the ingestion of one fresh eyeball."--Container.
- Participant:
- Narcotic: Harry Cording, Joan Dix, Patricia Farley, Jean Lacey, J. Stuart Blackton, Jr.
- Maniac: Bill Woods, Horace Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller, Theo Ramsey.
- Credits:
- Produced for video by Brett Wood ; Maniac: Photography, William Thompson ; editor, William Austin.
- Notes:
- Also released as Sex maniac.
- Credits for Narcotic from container.
- Narcotic was originally released as a motion picture in 1933 and Maniac in 1934.
- Special features: original theatrical trailer for Maniac, audio commentary by Bret Wood, censorship records, photo gallery, excerpts from the screenplay of Maniac, video excerpt of Maciste in Hell.
- Contains:
- Narcotic
- OCLC:
- 43665056
- Publisher Number:
- K142 Kino on Video
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