The Sexperts: Touched by Temptation (1965)

Director:

Jerald Intrator

Writer:

Charles Ross

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

They indulged in the kind of life many dream about...but don't dare live!

Plot:

A writer, a producer, and a director are having a meeting to discuss and plan scenes for their current film project: The story of Liz Adams, who has come to New York to seek fame and fortune through the theatre. |

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Lingerie Slip | Nudity | Fire Island | Independent Film

Cast

Lana Lynn	...	Liz Adams
Rusty Allen	...	Connie Mason
Ken Naarden	...	Barry Coleman (as Ken Curtin)
John Lyon	...	Douglas Baines
Lonnie Maggio	...	Leslie Carter
Anthony Ford	...	Baxter Standish
Davee Decker	...	Mimi (as Dori Davis)
Yvonne Curtis
Audrey Campbell	...	Stripper at party
Dixie Lester
Cary Marshall
Henry Grant
Jennifer Joyce
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Carl Anton
Doris Dorson
Nancy Kirsten
Peter Small
Susanne Sohmer
Nadja Swensen		(as Nadja Swenson)

Directed by
Jerald Intrator		(as J. Nehemiah)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charles Ross

Produced by
William Mishkin	....	producer

Cinematography by
Ekmek Kedayeef		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Jack Curtis		(as Curt Jacques)

Set Decoration by
Elaine

Makeup Department
Lola Nelson	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Hal Ross	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Neil Lewis	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Ross Hall	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
M.P. Williams	....	assistant camera

Other crew
William Mishkin	....	presenter
Edith Rosen	....	script girl

Production Companies

• Extraordinary Films

Distributors

• William Mishkin Motion Pictures (1965) (USA) (theatrical)
• Phoenix Film (1970) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Retro-Seduction Cinema (2008) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

"The Sexperts" - USA (short title)
"The Xperts" - USA (bowdlerized title)
"Touched by Temptation" - USA (subtitle)

Runtime:

USA:77 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Extraordinary Films

Trivia:

Several actors credited as appearing in this film by the American Film Institute are not listed on the film's screen credits (Yvonne Curtis, Dixie Lester, Cary Marshall, Henry Grant, Jennifer Joyce); meanwhile, other actors who do have screen credit are not mentioned by AFI at all. Seems possible that AFI is incorrect.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Twisted Sex Vol. 21 (2002) (V)

Drek; for Audrey Campbell completists only

This poorly made NYC soft porn movie has been reissued by the folks at Seduction Cinema as one of their offerings imitating the successful formula of competitor Something Weird Video. It is barely watchable, suffering from a most awkward film structure, reminiscent (but poorly executed) of the innovations in the 1930s by the great French renaissance man Sacha Guitry in its reflexiveness, but there the resemblance ends.

A director/producer/writer story conference constantly interrupts the action, as they plan the characters' arcs and various scenes. Opening is pure padding, a montage of "highlights" (I use the term very loosely) of the action we will see over the next hour-plus. Inane, insulting narration is almost nonstop; it must have been an adult industry policy (similar to the "Freedom of Speech" fake-patriotic messages of recent decades included on porn videos) of the time for the narrator to digress and extol the virtues of "Sun Worship", with the party line promotion of the wonderfulness of nudism (irrelevant to the action here). The film suddenly ends arbitrarily, belying the supposed care these conferences are supposed to confer on what is ultimately just an excuse to show skin. Not content with the results, there are several color sequences interpolated, lifted from several '50s era short loops; the full loops are included in the DVD as an "extra".

Very little dialog is used, and it is poorly post-synched. Location photography of NYC is the only value here, as well as a nostalgic view of Fire Island, before it became a gay mecca (this is after all 45 years ago).

Cast is unappealing, with the no-dialog role near the end for cult icon Audrey Campbell the only thrill. The DVD package includes three vintage TV commercials featuring Campbell, which surprisingly offer her a better showcase of her acting skills than most of her "evil plus skin" feature film assignments (Joe Sarno excepted). You know you're in deep trouble when the TV commercials are the best thing about a DVD!