C. Davis Smith
Birth : 1930-06-18, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Death : 2017-09-20
History
"Somebody asked me to write a book about my experiences. I was gonna title it: "Twenty Years in the Porn Business, and I Never Got Laid." Sadly it's a true story!"
Exploitation movie jack-of-all-trades Charles Davis Smith was born on June 18, 1930, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a tour of duty in the US Air Force, Smith began his cinematic career in the industrial film business in the 1950s. He went on to shoot, edit, direct, write, and even act in numerous low-budget softcore sexploitation features made throughout the 1960s.
After a stint working in mainstream television, Smith returned to his trash film roots and shot a handful of hardcore porn movies made in and around New York City in the 1970s. He is perhaps best known for his work as a cinematographer on a string of films for legendary Do-It-Yourself maverick schlock cinema auteur Doris Wishman, among them Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965), Another Day, Another Man (1966), Deadly Weapons (1974), Double Agent 73 (1974), Satan Was a Lady (1975) and A Night to Dismember (1983). In addition, he also shot movies for such directors as Victor Milt, Cecil Howard, and Zebedy Colt. Moreover, Smith edited music videos for The Manhattans, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Run-D.M.C.. He provided lively, entertaining, and illuminating commentaries on DVD reissues of assorted enjoyably down'n'dirty grindhouse features that he worked on in various capacities during his colorful and impressive East Coast underground cinema career. Smith died at age 87 on September 20, 2017.
Himself
German fans of filmmaker Doris Wishman visit the Florida set of her final film EACH TIME I KILL and talk with the cast and crew.
Director of Photography
A shy high school senior (Paralta) finds a magic locket that will allow her to trade one physical feature with anyone she murders.
Editor
Nishika 3D cameras were the inexpensive cousins to the Nimslo 3D cameras made in the mid to late 1980's (the Nimslo cameras used glass lenses, while the Nishika ones used plastic lenses). The cameras used regular 35mm film that captured 4 simultaneous images onto 2 frames of film. These images were printed onto photo stock with a lenticular surface bonded to it which allowed 3D to be seen without glasses, like the old kids story books with the 3D covers. The basic 3D camera kit came with this VHS instructional video that was hosted by Vincent Price. It was one of the last things he did.
Director of Photography
A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.
Director of Photography
A retelling of Nabokov's tale of the seduction game between a younger girl and an older man.
Camera Operator
Timmy, a grown man, still lives as a child with his domineering mother in the backwoods. Traumatized by memories of his parents having sex, he begins to kill women so that he can play with their corpses.
Director of Photography
Timmy, a grown man, still lives as a child with his domineering mother in the backwoods. Traumatized by memories of his parents having sex, he begins to kill women so that he can play with their corpses.
Editor
Timmy, a grown man, still lives as a child with his domineering mother in the backwoods. Traumatized by memories of his parents having sex, he begins to kill women so that he can play with their corpses.
Director of Photography
A man finds his wife cheating on him with his best friend; he kills both of them and then himself. Fifty years later, his ghost haunts the same apartment building. He repeatedly has sex with the young woman who moves into the apartment - making her think she's gone insane - kills her male admirers, and for good measure kills her neighbor's lover as well.
Director of Photography
After the farmer's daughters attack the farm hand Fred, three escaped convicts arrive and have their way with members of the family. Fred surprises the convicts, only to replace them in the family's victimization.
Director of Photography
Vanessa Manchester has always been a swinger. One man was never enough, not until she met Tim at a swinging orgasm party at her country retreat. In the midst of sexual excitement they discover each other, and the ultimate bliss of a one on one relationship. She becomes a fanatic on fidelity with only one restriction: marriage is not for her.
Director of Photography
Terry has always been jealous of her sister Claudia, but pretends to be happy that she’s gotten engaged to Victor, with whom Terry has been having an affair. However, unknown to Claudia, she’s been set up as a pawn by those even closer to her in a bid to drive her insane.
Director of Photography
Three attractive sisters have one year to avenge their mother's murder and collect her inheritance.
Lighting Technician
After being assaulted by two men, a mail carrier goes around New York City delivering packages on her appointed rounds. She seemingly always stumbles across people having sex, and she always joins in the fun.
Cinematography
After being assaulted by two men, a mail carrier goes around New York City delivering packages on her appointed rounds. She seemingly always stumbles across people having sex, and she always joins in the fun.
Director of Photography
After the mob hits a guy with a list, one of the hoods keeps the list for himself to blackmail the people on it. When the mobsters find out he's a double-crosser, they off him, which angers his busty girlfriend. She goes after them using the only two weapons she has.
Lighting Technician
A day in the life of a lady cop. She arrests a drunk in the park, picks up a panhandler, and breaks up a domestic disturbance. Along the way, she is assaulted a couple of times, but always manages to come out on top.
Director of Photography
A day in the life of a lady cop. She arrests a drunk in the park, picks up a panhandler, and breaks up a domestic disturbance. Along the way, she is assaulted a couple of times, but always manages to come out on top.
Director of Photography
Underworld drug king Toplar is flooding the market with low-grade heroin. Agent 99 gets a bit too close to the truth, but manages to gasp out a clue as to the identity of Toplar: he has a scar. Jane (Agent 73) is called in to find Toplar, and gets a camera implanted in her breast in order to photograph the bad guys she dispatches so headquarters will be able to identify Toplar when she finds him. Meanwhile she begins falling in love with fellow agent Jim.
(as Charles Lamont)
Young Rosebud leaves home after finding her daddy in bed with his mistress. She becomes a drifter and has incestuous fantasies about her father and is eventually abused.
Hans (as Charles Lamont)
A sexually confused young woman in a session with her psychiatrist relates her tale of coming to New York City from Sweden after being raped by her stepfather, falling in love with a young man named Don and then realizing that she is finding herself attracted more and more to women.
Director of Photography
A nice guy turns murderous after undergoing a penis transplant.
Writer
The wealthy Mr. Rich likes to cruise the seedier areas of Manhattan in his limousine, finding those who are willing to do whatever he wants them to do for a price--as long as he is able to watch.
Director of Photography
When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has everybody fooled, except Mr. Dite, an advertising executive and recent recipient of Mike’s services as a whip-wielding sadist. Taking advantage of the weak-willed masochist, Mike blackmails Dite into giving him a cushy job, then takes advantage of his new position by stealing Dite’s clients, seducing Dite’s elegant daughter, Sara, and climbing his way up the social ladder.
Director of Photography
Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. Then, he sees Ann going to work with her friend Babs. He thinks she looks like the doll. When he gets home, he caresses the doll... Ann feels it! When Zeb finds out about Ann's fiance Tom, he really gets mad, burns the doll, and beats it up, which makes Ann think she's losing her mind.
Director of Photography
Two professional assassins take over the home of two women (who happen to be lesbians) and their "houseguest" in order to assassinate a visiting foreign dignitary.
Story
Two professional assassins take over the home of two women (who happen to be lesbians) and their "houseguest" in order to assassinate a visiting foreign dignitary.
Male Voyeur / Blindfolded Man
Sex film about a series of case study sketches collected by a man studying abnormal sexual behavior.
Director
Sex film about a series of case study sketches collected by a man studying abnormal sexual behavior.
Writer
Sex film about a series of case study sketches collected by a man studying abnormal sexual behavior.
Director of Photography
A man's wife starts having an affair with her brother-in-law, who is temporarily staying at their apartment.
Director of Photography
A young couple move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, he is soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. The wife, unable to find a job and with bills piling up, runs into a seedy pimp who suggests a way she may be able to make a lot of money in a short time.
Editor
Naïve small town Indiana gal Sally arrives in New York City to attend college. While in New York Sally lives with four more worldly and uninhibited female roommates, goes to wild swinging parties, and falls for both a college professor and a young athletics major. Complications ensue after Sally discovers that she's pregnant.
Director of Photography
Naïve small town Indiana gal Sally arrives in New York City to attend college. While in New York Sally lives with four more worldly and uninhibited female roommates, goes to wild swinging parties, and falls for both a college professor and a young athletics major. Complications ensue after Sally discovers that she's pregnant.
Director of Photography
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
Professor Drake
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
Writer
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
Director
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
Director of Photography
After housewife Ellen is raped by the janitor she kills him and hits the road. She travels to the Big City where she is repeatedly used and abused. And when she finally finds a safe place to live her landlady's son turns out to be a detective, which threatens her newly found identity and peace of mind.
Director of Photography
A young girl arrives in New York City from Ohio determined to make it in the big city, but circumstances result in her becoming a waitress, then a prostitute.
Editor
A young girl arrives in New York City from Ohio determined to make it in the big city, but circumstances result in her becoming a waitress, then a prostitute.
Editor
A man married to a nymphomaniac tries wife-swapping to satisfy her desires and ends up falling for the timid, sex-phobic female half of the couple he chooses for this.
Director of Photography
A man married to a nymphomaniac tries wife-swapping to satisfy her desires and ends up falling for the timid, sex-phobic female half of the couple he chooses for this.
Associate Producer
A man married to a nymphomaniac tries wife-swapping to satisfy her desires and ends up falling for the timid, sex-phobic female half of the couple he chooses for this.
Additional Photography
A "modeling agency" in New York City is the setting for this outrageous erotic romp where men and women will do anything to satisfy their wildest carnal cravings.
Cameraman
A "modeling agency" in New York City is the setting for this outrageous erotic romp where men and women will do anything to satisfy their wildest carnal cravings.
Director of Photography
A photographer tries to show us in the audience how to make a nudie-cutie, only for everything to go totally wrong.
