Playbirds's back cover shockers
Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 5:05 pm
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.
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.