Playbirds's back cover shockers

[jackdore]

Thirty years ago, Playbirds. Whitehouse and other Sullivan mags ran lurid colour adverts on the back page with a Nazi theme. 4 FILMS THAT WILL SHOCK YOU as the headline screamed. And all in the best possible taste, accompanied with a large Swastika and a glossy photo of two guys having their way with a girl against a dungeon wall.

Entitled THE VIOLATORS with individual titles including No Mercy for Gina and Dungeon Love and supposedly produced by Casanova Films of Denmark, they were available from The Ultimate Film Club of Woodford Green, and would set you back ?50 for the four - a weeks wages for some people in those days.

Does anyone out there know anything about these? As the adverts ran for some months and the mags were selling in record numbers at the time, somebody must have purchased the films.

Was it all another of the con jobs which the mags and their publisher were renowned for? And if so where did the accompanying pictures come from? Perhaps someone who was in the business at the time could enlighten us.

Any info would be interesting. It's incredible to think that such an ad with its references to rape and torture could appear on the back of a mag for months on open sale at most newsagents without comment today.

[hattertim]

And here is that "shock" advert! I think the shock would probably be how much money you'd shelled out for these! This is from the back of Playbirds Volume 1 # 8 by the way....

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[jimslip]

Gott im Himmel!!

[Terry_S]

Back in the 50s and 60s nazi rapes and torture were all the rage in men's adventure mags. The covers of these mainstream mags would feature innocent blondes with clothes half ripped off being roasted over hot coals by burly nazis or whipped by merciless half-naked she-nazis. No-one batted an eye-lid.

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[jackdore]

Wonder where the stills came from? Harrison Marks was sending material to the mags at the time, could he have had something to do with
it?

Anyone heard of the other films such as Anna's Manor?

[jackdore]

A good point. Neither was this sort of material including the likes of Playbirds confined to the top shelf, often being displayed in carousels, as well as the windows of your local porn vendor. No-one really bothered until the arrival of the killjoy coalition of puritan feminists and Tory Godsquadders in the early 80s.

[Johnny B]

If anyone?s still interested in this, all evidence points to these films being made by Harrison Marks. All of the other films in the Ad were by him, ?Anna?s Manor? has surfaced in Germany as ?Die Lusterne Grafin? , its a hardcore short, although theres the possibility that Marks might have also shot a soft version of it for Sullivan to sell through his magazines??

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[joe king]

Die Luesterne Grafin?
Die l?sterne Gr?fin
Die l?sterne Gr?fin=
The Countess lasciviously (? The lascivous Countess?)





Interesting that there seemed to be no Swastikas on the uniforms in the ad photo.