Michael Findlay
Birth : 1937-08-27, New York City, New York, USA
Death : 1977-05-16
History
Michael Findlay, along with his wife Roberta Findlay, directed and produced numerous sexploitation movies. They have been described as "the most notorious filmmakers in the annals of sexploitation". In the mid-to-late 1960s, Findlay was prominent among a small group of underground New York filmmakers (including Joseph W. Sarno, Joseph P. Mawra, and Lou Campa) that produced exploitation "roughies" (a mix of sex and sadism) for the grindhouse theater market. Sometimes he would direct under the alias Julian Marsh and act in his own films billed as Robert West. His wife Roberta (aka Anna Riva) was the cinematographer, co-writer, and supporting actress for many of their films together. They also employed the same actors repeatedly, most notably Uta Erickson, and Marie Brent, aka Janet Banzet. The Findlays were friends with George Weiss, producer of Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda and a series of fetishistic Olga films (Olga's House of Shame, Olga's Girls, et al.). In 1964 Weiss encouraged them to make films in this new subgenre of violent sexploitation.
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Director
What would you do if you were a young & very pretty office guy who desperately wanted a promotion? Well, if everybody in your office was gay, married, but very, very hot you’d sleep and blackmail your way to the top!
Cinematography
Dr. Bill Howard dumps his lover Tony in favor of Eddie, who he blinded in an auto accident. Will the new relationship survive, or is just not meant to be?
Director
Dr. Bill Howard dumps his lover Tony in favor of Eddie, who he blinded in an auto accident. Will the new relationship survive, or is just not meant to be?
Director
Charlie is a construction worker who cheats on his nagging lover (and he does nag!) with the married, closeted, Bill.
Cinematography
When Italian boy David visits New York City to see his cousin Michael (and his assistant, Angelo), he falls in love with Marc Stevens.
Director
When Italian boy David visits New York City to see his cousin Michael (and his assistant, Angelo), he falls in love with Marc Stevens.
Detective (archive footage) (uncredited)
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Writer
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Director
The followers of a charismatic cult leader set out to murder a pregnant actress.
Richard Jennings
A masked man breaks into a Times Square adult movie theater and forces the projectionist at gunpoint to show assorted pornographic scenes to him.
Director
A masked man breaks into a Times Square adult movie theater and forces the projectionist at gunpoint to show assorted pornographic scenes to him.
Decapitation Onlooker (uncredited)
Four college students and their professor embark on a path of mystery and death while searching for the Abominable Snowman.
Editor
Four college students and their professor embark on a path of mystery and death while searching for the Abominable Snowman.
Director
Four college students and their professor embark on a path of mystery and death while searching for the Abominable Snowman.
Editor
Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.
Dr. Rogers (voice) (uncredited)
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.
Detective (uncredited)
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
Screenplay
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Editor
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Producer
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Director
A soft-core film that explores the subject of bisexuality. To date, no known prints of this title have surfaced.
Screenplay
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
Director
A famous movie star filming on location in Buenos Aires becomes involved with a Manson-like cult. Years after this flopped at the box office, it was purchased by Michael Findlay and became the backbone for the notorious film Snuff (1975).
3rd Mourner / Timothy (voice)
Follows a young woman as she travels through the strange, surreal passages reminiscent of Dante's Inferno.
Narrator (voice)
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Director of Photography
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Editor
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Producer
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Writer
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Director
Shot without sound, this is little more than a series of soft-core vignettes strung together via narration. Not a highlight in the careers of NYC sexploitation filmmakers Michael and Roberta Findlay.
Director
A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Homeowner (as Richard Jennings)
A sadistic teenager searching for "Daddy" murders and dismembers anybody who picks her up hitch-hiking.
Producer
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
Screenplay
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
Editor
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
Spencer
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
Director
Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Director
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Producer
A man awakes from his sleep to discover that he's in ancient Greece. He witnesses a scantily-clad woman whom he woos, then kills with a club. A group of lesbians find the man, tie him to a tree, then partake in an incredible deed.
Producer
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
Editor
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
Richard Jennings
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
Writer
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
Director
A weapons expert who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife and her lover goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers, while plotting the demise of his wife's swinging bisexual sister and her kinky boyfriend.
Richard Jennings / Joe Davidson
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
Writer
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
Producer
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
Editor
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
Director
A weapons dealer who murdered his unfaithful stripper wife goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife's lover.
Richard Davis
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
Editor
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
Producer
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
Director
Henpecked misogynist Richard Davis murders his shrewish wife and goes out to dispose of her corpse. However, things go awry for Richard after he's abducted by a pair of insane lesbians who take him to their house where they keep a grown woman called Baby in a crib.
Editor
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
Producer
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
Writer
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
Richard Jennings (as Robert West)
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
Director
A distraught weapons dealer is involved in an automobile accident after catching his stripper wife in bed with another man. Upon recovering, he goes on a killing spree, bumping off exotic dancers and hookers while plotting revenge on his wife.
Partygoer / Call Girl's Client / Voices
Presented as an inquiry into the ways of lust, this film is staged as a documentary. It moves from rural prostitution (the roadhouse) to pornographers, then on to streetwalkers, male hustlers, and high-class call girls. The madam runs the bordello, she depends on the photographer to supply her with pornography; he's in the city, using his camera to lead him into depravity. The streetwalkers risk arrest from the cops and abuse from the johns. Even the call girls have a tough time: from their expenses to their lack of self-reflection. Their motto: "Live fast, die young, and make a beautiful corpse."
Editor
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Director of Photography
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Producer
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
The Bum's Friend
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Director
A man's sexual obsession with a neighbor ends in bloodshed.
Editor
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
Director of Photography
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
Director
A young Japanese girl arriving in New York City gets mixed up with mobsters and dope dealers.
Director of Photography
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party girls".
Bearded Man (uncredited)
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party girls".
Director
At a Senate crime hearing, four young girls testify as to how, shortly after their arrival in New York, they became "zero girls," also known as "party girls".
Bruno (as Robert West)
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Camera Operator
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Producer
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Writer
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Editor
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
Director
A stripper is kidnapped by a drifter and taken to the home of a wealthy pervert. The pervert proceeds to strip her and beat her with a whip. She escapes, and he has to track her down and kill her before she can notify the police.
