Is There Sex After Death?

Is There Sex After Death?
Is There Sex After Death?
Directed by	Alan Abel; Jeanne Abel
Written by	Alan Abel; Jeanne Abel; Buck Henry
Produced by	Alan Abel; Jeanne Abel; Michael Rothschild
Starring	Alan Abel; Buck Henry; Robert Downey, Sr.; Holly Woodlawn; Mink Stole
Cinematography	Arthur Albert; Gerald Cotts
Edited by	Jeanne Abel
Release date	1971;
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Is There Sex After Death? is a 1971 mockumentary and mondo film.

Plot[]

Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation searches out luminary figures in the world of sex. According to the movie, the answer to the title question is: "No, only affection".

Cast[]

Alan Abel as Dr. Rogers
Buck Henry as Dr. Louise Manos
Marshall Efron as Vince Domino
Holly Woodlawn as Herself
Robert Downey, Sr. as Himself
Jim Moran as Dr. Elevenike
James Randi as Seance Medium
Mink Stole as Dominatrix
James Dixon as Richard Nixon

Controversy[]

On March 12, 1980, the ON TV pay channel aired the film on WXON, Channel 20 in Detroit. It was scheduled to air again ten days later, but it did not. WXON station manager Aben Johnson, who was alerted to the film's content (including sex and nudity) by a station employee during its original airing, decided against showing it again, substituting Saturday Night Fever instead. ON TV's policy at the time forbade showing any films with an X rating, for adults only; Is There Sex After Death? was apparently not given a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America at all until 1975, when it was granted an 'R' certificate, making the movie seemingly within ON's standards. Still, WXON never showed the film again on its ON TV affiliate, which closed in 1983.^[1]

References[]

^ Stoehr, Chris (March 26, 1980). "The movie was too sexy for Channel 20". Detroit Free Press. p. 8D. Retrieved January 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

External links[]

[1] Stoehr, Chris (March 26, 1980). "The movie was too sexy for Channel 20". Detroit Free Press. p. 8D. Retrieved January 24, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.

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