Take It Out in Trade

Take It Out in Trade
Directed by Ed Wood
Produced by Edward Ashdown
Richard Gonzalez
Written by Ed Wood
Starring Ed Wood
Duke Moore
Nona Carver
Michael Donovan O'Donnell
Linda Colpin
Cinematography Hal Guthu
Edited by Ed Wood
Distributed by Ashdown-Gonzalez Productions
Release dates
  • 1970 (1970)
Running time
 80 mins
Country United States
Language English

Take It Out in Trade is a 1970 softcore pornographic comedy, written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The plot centers on a couple who hire a private investigator (Michael Donovan O'Donnell) to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute," full of various soft-core couplings. The film has never been made available on home video, but is extant.

Cast

Apart from The Amazing Criswell (who appeared in Orgy of the Dead), Duke Moore is the only one of Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s stable of actors from his 1950s films to appear in one of his sexploitation films. Nona Carver was a girlfriend of Wood regular Kenne Duncan. Wood himself appeared in the film as a transvestite named "Alecia", footage of which can also be seen in Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes.

Unavailability

Take It Out in Trade has never been released on any home video format. It was commonly believed to be a lost film, but a full 80 minute print was publicly exhibited at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in September 2014. [1] In addition, in Nightmare of Ecstasy, his biography of Edward D. Wood, Jr., Rudolph Grey claims to have discovered a rare copy during his research. He reports that the film has "psychedelic touches," with red being dominant in the film's visual scheme. The website of Something Weird Video also claims that it is not a lost film.[2] In the 1990s, three reels of silent outtake footage was discovered in the projection booth of a Santa Monica movie theatre containing bloopers, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, and alternative takes. The footage was released on VHS in 1995 by Something Weird Video as Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes. This remains the only footage of Take It Out in Trade that has been released on home video.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=09&year=2014#showing-43174
  2. ↑ Something Weird website
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