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Born March 15, 1921 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Joseph W. Sarno (March 15, 1921 – April 26, 2010) was an American film director and screenwriter. One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of shot-on-video features for the '80s hardcore video market. Sarno, a pioneer of the sexploitation film genre, completed his first adult-oriented feature in 1961. Among his best-known films in the genre are Sin in the Suburbs (1964), Flesh and Lace, The Bed and How to Make It, and Moonlighting Wives (1966). Sarno's work of the sexploitation period is typified by stark chiaroscuro lighting, long takes and rigorous staging. He was also well known for scenarios centering around issues of psycho-sexual anxiety and sexual identity development. During his sexploitation period, Sarno worked with such actors as Uta Erickson, Dyanne Thorne (star of the Ilsa series), Audrey Campbell (Olga's House of Shame series), Michael Alaimo, Patricia McNair, Tod Moore, and his cousin, Joe Santos, who would become a regular on television's The Rockford Files. Beginning in 1968, Sarno's work became somewhat more explicit, predicting the emergence of soft-core. His breakthrough feature Inga (1968), was one of the first X-rated films released in the United States. Other noteworthy soft-core features include Vibrations (1968), Passion in Hot Hollows (1969), Daddy, Darling (1970), Young Playthings (1972), Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) and Misty (1975). Sarno was also the director of Deep Throat Part 2 (1974), the R-rated sequel to the hardcore classic Deep Throat. After 1968, Sarno's soft-core work was divided between films produced in the United States and films produced in Europe, principally Sweden, Germany and Denmark. Many of Sarno's European features were made with American backing. In Europe, he was known for having worked with actresses Marie Liljedahl, Christina Lindberg, Helli Louise, and Marie Forså. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph W. Sarno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Suburban Secrets
2004

Screw the Right Thing
1990

Hung Jury
1989
Coming On America
1989

The Erotic Adventures of Bedman and Throbbin
1989

The Red Head
1989

Hyperkink
1989

The Big Pink
1989

Suzie Creamcheese
1988

Sex Starved
1988

On Fire
1988

Ball in the Family
1988

The Horneymooners
1988

Sacrilege
1988

The Flirt
1988
Panting at the Opera
1988

The Girls of the B.L.O.
1988

Double Agent
1987

Fresh
1987

Sexpionage
1987

Party Doll
1987

Sexpot
1987

Firebox
1986

Bedroom Thighs
1986

Oversexed
1986

Porked!
1986

Blow by Blow
1986

Shacking Up
1985

Taste of Pink
1985

Tight Delight
1985

Little Oral Annie Takes Manhattan
1985

Hot Stuff
1984