Pirkle

 

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IF FOOTMEN TIRE, WHAT WILL HORSES DO? -1971-Laughable commentary by a guy who looks like Floyd the barber on how communism is going to invade America and make everyone work 7 days a week. They'll kill children too and leave their bloody bodies lying in the street as a warning. Those they don't kill they will brainwash into hating Jesus. They ride horses and wear armbands. Their leader makes kids pray to Fidel Castro and they get the candy Jesus wouldn't give them. When they hear the word of God being preached one little guy has a bamboo stick shoved in his ear. One kid is decapitated. Church goers are shot en mass after attending a service. Lots of red paint. 

When a woman named Judy accepts Jesus after her mom dies, some weird looking women (one plays a zither) sing while Rev. Estus W. Pirkle implores the viewer to accept Jesus. 

This cheap badly acted Christian propaganda film was written and directed by Ron Ormond and based on Pirkle's book. They teamed up for other outings too.

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Time For a Lecture

 

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DEATH DRUG-1978-Nice guy plumber and aspiring musician Jesse (Phillip Michael Thomas) is accepted by a music conservatory but two record producers convince him to forget that because he's going to be bigger than Donna Summers and The Bee Gees. He has a real meltdown Shatner style, while at a nursing home visiting his father who's rejected him because he wouldn't be a doctor. Later we hear from a TV broadcast that Jesse has hit the big time with his new album ("The kids love it!").

Unfortunately, he starts smoking angel dust and imagines his hairbrush is an alligator! He can't function at work (apparently not big enough yet to quit his day job) so he goes to his pusher to score. His assistant keeps his stash in the handle of his tennis racket. Later he gets very paranoid and attacks his boss and abuses his girlfriend. At a session with The Gap Band, he imagines they are making fun of him and rants at his producers ("Don't Mess With Me!") and winds up losing his contract. When his girlfriend gets pregnant her doctor (Rosalind Cash) takes her on a tour of PCP ward. Later Jesse tries to reform but freaks out in a supermarket and attacks an oncoming truck. Cut to a newscaster who informs us Jesse has been struck and killed by a truck. 

The newscast turns into a drug lecture. Girlfriend has her kid. 5 years later she and son (both dressed in white) visit Jesse's grave where she breaks down and the credits roll. Then Thomas comes back to speak again. 

What a mess! 

And DJ Frankie Crocker plays a drug dealer. Bad everything scare film. Director Oscar Williams also made THE FINAL COMEDOWN (1972) with Bill Dee Williams.

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Now It's Legal..

 

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THE TERRIBLE TRUTH-1951-Scare film about marijuana leading to heroin addiction, through the eyes of Phyllis, a nice high school student who starts smoking “reefers” with some guys “who have no backbone”, then meeting Phil the pusher, who makes her a heroin addict/pusher who later goes “cold turkey”. An on-screen narrator William B. McKesson suspects “the Reds” might be behind it. This short (around 10 minutes) is so cheap and haphazardly made that all his dialogue was dubbed later and his words don't match his mouth movements. 

Once a stand-in for John Wayne, Sid Davis produced many similarly themed exploitation shorts (LSD: TRIP OR TRAP!, GANG BOY, THE BOTTLE AND THE TROTTLE). He also directed a few including NAME UNKNOWN which also featured William McKesson, who was an actual juvenile court judge.

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