Interracial Sex Havoc Part 1:
1966 - 1971
A selection of film reviews by Christos Mouroukis.
The term “Ethnic” pornography is more accurate, but nobody’s using it,
so we’ll have to stick with the “Interracial” one. Both are used to describe
the filming of sexual intercourse between humans of different racial
backgrounds.
Surely, we live in an era with loads of material for us to watch and
discuss, but this selection of film reviews will introduce you to the earliest
films featuring the subject that I could get my hands on, starting from ’66 and
wrapping on ‘71.
None of the films included here are pornographic; they only had to have
at least one interracial sex scene to qualify. The second chapter will include
films from the golden age of porn and more from the blaxploitation front.
The Black Klansman (1966)
As you may
have expected, this film is a talk-fest (no wonder it was made for only
$55.000), until a KKK member burns a black girl alive. After this incident, and
because he doesn’t get any help from the police (in a later scene we’ll learn
that they’re racists too), the girl’s father [Richard Gilden from The Corpse
Grinders (1971)] is seeking revenge alone. His light skin colour and a wig
help him pass for white and after collecting some information he joins the
local Klan in order to find the murderer.
Most
characters in this one are motivated by hatred (even the sympathetic
protagonist attacks his white girlfriend) and the Klan members attack
interracial couples.
Ted V. Mikels directed the masterpiece Strike Me Deadly
(1963) before jumping on more sensational stuff such as Dr. Sex (1964) and One
Shocking Moment (1965). He then made this Klansman film which may be interpreted as either exploitation (or
blaxploitation for that matter) or be taken (politically) seriously by books
such as Film Alchemy: the Independent
Cinema of Ted V. Mikels by Christopher Wayne Curry (it is an excellent
read, and you should buy it).
No matter how
you analyze this flick, two things are certain: the opening credits’ song (by
Tony Harris) is awesome, and so is the ending.