Exploitation Films
2 films in the exploitation genre, all public domain and free to watch.
The HibingeTV exploitation collection spans 2 films, ranging from 1949 to 1956. All are in the public domain and free to watch. Standout titles include She Shoulda Said No!, The Violent Years.
Exploitation, Drama
She Shoulda Said No! (also released as Wild Weed and The Devil's Weed) is a 1949 exploitation film directed by Sam Newfield and starring Lila Leeds, whose arrest with Robert Mitchum on marijuana charges the previous year provided the marketing hook. Leeds plays a chorus girl whose descent into marijuana addiction ruins her career and drives her brother to suicide, in the spirit of earlier drug-scare pictures like Reefer Madness. The film was produced and roadshown by the exploitation impresario Kroger Babb under his Hygienic Productions banner, with a sensational prologue and an in-person lecture component. It features the feature-film debut of the character actor Jack Elam. The film is in the public domain.
Exploitation · Drama
She Shoulda Said No!
1949 - Exploitation
Crime, Exploitation
The Violent Years is a 1956 American exploitation film directed by William Morgan from a screenplay by Edward D. Wood Jr., who went uncredited. Jean Moorhead, a Playboy Playmate, stars as Paula Parkins, the bored, wealthy leader of a gang of juvenile delinquent high school girls who commit robberies and assault men for thrills. The film follows the gang's escalating crimes and Paula's eventual downfall, framed as a cautionary tale about bad parenting and teenage rebellion. It was the most financially successful film with creative input from Ed Wood, released on a double bill by Headliner Productions. The film is in the public domain.
Crime · Exploitation · Drama
The Violent Years
1956 - Crime