Stanley Long

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Stanley Long (born 1933 in South London), often known as Stanley A. Long, is a British Exploitation cinema and sexploitation filmmaker. He is a writer, cinematographer, editor, and eventually, producer/director of cheap exploitation movies.

Long began his career as a photographer, before producing striptease shorts or "glamour home movies", as they were sometimes known, for the 8mm market. Beginning in the late fifties, Long’s feature film career would span the entire history of the British sex film, and as such exemplifies its differing trends and attitudes. From coy nudist films (Nudist Memories, 1959), to moralizing documentary (The Wife Swappers, 1969)[1] to a more relaxed attitude to permissive material (Naughty, 1971), to out and out comedies at the end of the 1970s.

He made three sex comedy movies in the 1970s - Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1975), Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) and Adventures of a Plumber's Mate starring, among others, Barry Evans, Diana Dors, Irene Handl, Harry H. Corbett, Liz Fraser and Fred Emney..

Like Norman J. Warren Long also made horror films. He made the anthology movie Screamtime in 1983 [2] and was due to film a Jo Gannon script entitled Plasmid, about albino mutants living in London’s Underground. While the film was never made, confusingly a tie-in novel of Plasmid was released.

Long was also the cameraman on several British horror films of the 1960s including The Blood Beast Terror, Repulsion (uncredited) and The Sorcerers. For the latter he was strapped to the top of a car to film one sequence.

Long retired from film directing in the early 1980s, however in 2006 he returned to direct The Other Side of the Screen a one-off documentary about various aspects of filmmaking, hosted by Paul Martin, star of Flog It!. The "Adventures of" comedies were released to DVD on the 2nd June 2008, in addition Long plans to release four of his more obscure films to DVD, Bread, On the Game, (Sex and) The Other Woman and This That and the Other.

Long was recently interviewed for the BBC's Balderdash and Piffle programme (broadcast 25th May, 2007)[3], and the british horror and comedy episodes of the British Films Forever series ("Magic, Murder and Monsters" broadcast 25th August 2007, "Sauce, Satire and Sillyness" broadcast 9th September, 2007).

Simon Sheridan’s long-awaited biography of Long is due to be published in August 2008.

Low budget filmmaker Jan Manthey recently paid tribute to Long's "Adventures of..." sex comedy series with the short film Can You Keep It Up With This That and The Other For A Week (2004)[4], and for the sequel Adventures of a Plumber in Outer Space leading man Vic Pratt had exclusive use of Long’s famous plunger "the one that got stuck on various young birds' behinds in Adventures Of A Plumbers Mate".[5]

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X-Rated - Adventures of an Exploitation Filmmaker by Simon Sheridan (Reynolds & Hearn books) (Published August 2008) ISBN-10: 190528778X

Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema by Simon Sheridan (third edition) (Reynolds & Hearn books) (2007)

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