The History Of Sex In Cinema
August, 1965
The History of Sex in CinemaPart four: The Twenties--Europe's Decade of Decadence And DeliriumBack in silent days, American audiences were exposed to far more foreign movies than they are today. For one thing, there were no language barriers. Distributors merely inserted English subtitles to replace the original French, German or Italian, and advertised an "all-star cast" to obscure the fact that nobody in the film had ever been heard of before. Nor did such pictures play in tiny, tony...