Word: vixens
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...there are considerations here that blot out all the hesitations. The Vixen has come to town, and it's time to swallow journalistic honor and say the things that have to be said...
...When The Vixen made its debate in Washington this summer, it attracted little attention outside the regular circle of skin-flick fans who hang out in the city's 14th Street theater district. Vixen opened in a movie house across the street from the Greyhound bus station, and on nights in early July there was a steady line of soldiers stretching across the street from the station into the theater...
There wasn't much in Vixen's appearance then to suggest that it was any different from the movies being shown next door to it (Hungry Thighs and Sweet Honey) . The posters outside the theater just showed a healthily panting woman, her face partially blocked by a huge "X RATING-NO ONE UNDER IS ADMITTED." The ticket seller was more interested in hustling some of the people from the Hungry Thighs crowd to Vixen than in checking the age of potential viewers...
...Vixen's big break came in late July. The Washingly Post- whose reviewer said he secretly followed some Congressmen to find the movie-praised Vixen in a lavish piece headlined "At the Top of the Skin Flick Heap." From there on, the professional advertising machine went to work to produce a genuine hit. A woman with a breathy voice made a series of subtle ads ("Vixen-is she woman or animal"-pant-pant) for the local radio stations. By August the theater owners knew they were riding a good thing. So many tourists were flocking to the show that...
...sexploitation" movies is no longer easily made. The screen's crassest byproduct, variations of the old stag film or skin flick, draw more customers in some cities than the hard-ticket Hollywood product. Ranging from 20 minutes of nudie shorts to the sophisticated voyeurism of Directors Russ Meyer (Vixen) and Radley Metzger (The Dirty Girls), sex films are now a multimillion-dollar-a-year industry. Exhibited in well-appointed cinemas that charge $3 and up for admission, they have moved from the tenderloin to midtown...