Take It Out in Trade
| Take It Out in Trade | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ed Wood |
| Written by | Ed Wood |
| Produced by | Edward Ashdown Richard Gonzalez |
| Starring | Ed Wood Duke Moore Nona Carver Michael Donovan O'Donnell Linda Colpin |
| Cinematography | Hal Guthu |
| Edited by | Ed Wood |
| Distributed by | Ashdown-Gonzalez Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 mins |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Take It Out in Trade is a 1970 softcore pornographic comedy, written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The plot centers on a couple who hire a private investigator (Michael Donovan O'Donnell) to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute," full of various soft-core couplings. The film has never been made available on home video, but is extant.
Cast
- Nona Carver - Sleazy Maisie Rumpledinck
- Duke Moore - Frank Riley
- Michael Donovan O'Donnell - Mac McGregor
- Donna Stanley - Shirley Riley
- Ed Wood - Alecia
- Linda Colpin
Apart from The Amazing Criswell (who appeared in Orgy of the Dead), Duke Moore is the only one of Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s stable of actors from his 1950s films to appear in one of his sexploitation films. Nona Carver was a girlfriend of Wood regular Kenne Duncan. Wood himself appeared in the film as a transvestite named "Alecia", footage of which can also be seen in Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes.
Unavailability
Take It Out in Trade has never been released on any home video format. It was commonly believed to be a lost film, but a full 80 minute print was publicly exhibited at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in September 2014. [1] In addition, in Nightmare of Ecstasy, his biography of Edward D. Wood, Jr., Rudolph Grey claims to have discovered a rare copy during his research. He reports that the film has "psychedelic touches," with red being dominant in the film's visual scheme. The website of Something Weird Video also claims that it is not a lost film.[2] In the 1990s, three reels of silent outtake footage was discovered in the projection booth of a Santa Monica movie theatre containing bloopers, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, and alternative takes. The footage was released on VHS in 1995 by Something Weird Video as Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes. This remains the only footage of Take It Out in Trade that has been released on home video.
See also
References
- The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1996), documentary film directed by Brett Thompson
- Rudolph Grey, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1992) ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8