Mondo Bizarro(1966)

Name: Mondo Bizarro
Director: Lee Frost
Released: 1966-08-25
Rating: 4.4
Cast: Claude Emmand, Bob Cresse, Lee Frost, Dick Osmun, Vito Paulekas

08/25/1966 (US)Documentary1h 20m

4.4

"A World of Beauty, Sensuality and Repulsion"

Overview

A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, takes in Easter week with vacationing college students on Balboa Island, observes a German audience enjoying a play about Nazi sadism, and, with the help of powerful military lenses, spies on a Lebanese white-slavery auction.

Lee Frost

Director

Lee Frost

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Claude Emmand

Narrator

Bob Cresse

Arab (uncredited)

Lee Frost

Crew Member in Blue Cap (uncredited)

Dick Osmun

Glass Eater (uncredited)

Vito Paulekas

Self (uncredited)

Karen Wyatt

Self - Vito's Model (uncredited)

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Part of the Mondo Collection

In 1966, the notorious producer/director/distributor team of Lee Frost and Bob Cresse (HOT SPUR, THE SCAVENGERS) combined the extremes of the Mondo genre with their own depraved aesthetic to create two shockumentaries that put Olympic International on the map and changed the face of exploitation forever. Cresse himself narrates MONDO FREUDO, “a world of sex and the strange & unusual laws that govern it” featuring Hollywood strippers, Tijuana hookers, London lesbians, Times Square Satanists and topless Watusi clubs. In MONDO BIZARRO, the team’s “hidden cameras” go “beyond the beyond” to expose Bahamian voodoo rites, Japanese massage parlors, Nazi theater, and an Arab sex slave auction that looks suspiciously like LA.’s Bronson Canyon. Both films have been scanned in 4k from the original Something Weird 35mm vault negatives.