Night of the Animals (1971)

Starring:

• Larry McCoy
• Doug Draine
• Mary Anne

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I saw this rare early-1970s X-rated, soft-porn film from a VHS distributed by Something Weird Video. The movie begins with two men, one Black and one White escaping from prison where they are picked-up by car in a field by a Black woman accomplish after their escape. The three then rob a liquor store, murder the cashier by shooting him pointblank in the head and commit a home-invasion of a middle-class family's home that include a father, wife, daughter and the daughter's boyfriend who is killed by the three upon their initial invasion. What happens next would probably not be allowed to say in detail, but it is bad. Bad in both the circumstances of how the forced sex occurs at first, until the family members give in after been forced to drink the three home-invaders' whiskey and pop their pills, and bad as in the way it was filmed and acted. I also emphasize that NIGHT OF THE ANIMALS is soft-pornography. It is all simulated sex. If released today it would probably receive a USA rating of NC-17.

Hour Glass (1971)

Directed by:

• Haile Gerima

Starring:

• Mel Rosier

Storyline
In the midst of the Black consciousness movement, a basketball player imagines his profession to that of a gladiator. After a series of reflections including his upbringing as a foster child of White Americans, he returns to his origins.

Skin Game (1971)

Starring:

• Louis Gossett Jr.
• James Garner
• Brenda Sykes
• Susan Clark
• Edward Asner
• Andrew Duggan

Storyline
Posing as master and slave, likable swindlers Quincy (James Garner) and Jason (Lou Gossett) ride into backwater prairie towns in 1875. And after Quincy intones and Jason moans, Jason is sold to the highest bidder. Quincy later springs him loose and they split town, split the cash and head down the road to the next sucker. It's an effective scam for these smart and nimble schemers - until they cross paths with an equally clever con woman (Susan Clark) and an irate former customer (Edward Asner).