The titles covered on this page are a selection of unidentified, Asian and European, movies that were cut or banned in Australia.
The country of production is taken from the National Classification Database and the decade of production is an educated guess. Do not rely on either to help identify a title, as they may be incorrect.
Please contact us if you are able to provide more information about any of these titles.
More unidentified films can be found on the corresponding page in Film Censorship Database No. 2.
Box Boy
Produced by D. A. Gee / 197? / Australia / IMDb link required
In October 1974, a 602.00-meter (54:51) 16mm print of BOX BOY was banned because of ‘indecency’.
Allan Gee was the applicant. The producer credit lists him as D. A. Gee.
Current information
This may be a gay film, as the term ‘box boy’ is slang for a male prostitute.
Mike reports
D. A. Gee is likely David Allan Gee, a coin-forger and adult film exhibitor. It does not necessarily help identify BOX BOY, as it may be a retitling of just about anything.
The term ‘Box Boy’ also refers to a male who delivers groceries to female customers and has sex with them. A few 1970s US adult films had that plot.
In January 1982, 14th Mandolin received an R-rating for a 50-minute feature titled GROCERY BOY. I have no idea if there is any link.
If we stop assuming it is an Australian film, then we would have to consider THE BOX BOY (1969), a US softcore film about a delivery boy who seduces housewives. A 1975 ad from THE STAR-LEDGER shows it had a running time around 57-minutes.
Lecherous Lover
Directed by Unknown / 198? / Japan / IMDb link required
In May 1987, a 60-minute print of LECHEROUS LOVER was refused by the Censorship Board.
Yu Enterprises was the applicant.
This was presumably intended for screening at Raymond Yu’s Australia Cinema in Sydney.
Current information
Admats from the local Chinese language press would help identify this feature.
Madam X
Directed by Unknown / 198? / Japan / IMDb link required
In November 1986, a 1309.00-meter (47:43) print of MADAM X was Refused Registration because of ‘gratuitous sexual violence’.
A censored version was passed with an R-rating in February 1987. The reason given was sex, which was described as being:
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: Medium
Purpose: Gratuitous
The R-rated running time was 1206.92 meters (43:59); meaning nearly four-minutes of footage had been removed.
Yu Enterprises was the applicant.
This presumably screened at Raymond Yu’s Australia Cinema in Sydney.
Current information
Admats from the local Chinese language press would help identify this feature.
Sadistic Whore
Directed by Unknown / 198? / Japan / IMDb link required
In November 1986, a 1630.00-meter (59:25) print of SADISTIC WHORE was banned because of ‘gratuitous sexual violence’.
A censored version was prepared and was passed with an R-rating in February 1987.
The reason given was sex, which was described as being:
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: Medium
Purpose: Gratuitous
The running time was 1316.64-meters (47:59); meaning over eleven-minutes were cut for an Australian audience.
The film was passed again in March 1987 with the same rating, and reasons.
In both cases, Yu Enterprises was the applicant.
This presumably screened at Raymond Yu’s Australia Cinema in Sydney.
Current information
Admats from the local Chinese language press would help identify this feature.
Sexy Spirit
Directed by Unknown / 198? / Japan / IMDb link required
In August 1987, a 55-minute print of SEXY SPIRIT was refused by the Censorship Board.
Yu Enterprises was the applicant.
This was presumably intended for screening at Raymond Yu’s Australia Cinema in Sydney.
Current information
Admats from the local Chinese language press would help identify this feature.
Vamp
Directed by Unknown / 198? / Japan / IMDb link required
In May 1987, a 71-minute print of VAMP was refused by the Censorship Board.
A cut 68-minute version was passed with an R-rating in August 1987.
In both cases, Yu Enterprises was the applicant.
This presumably screened at Raymond Yu’s Australia Cinema in Sydney.
Current information
Admats from the local Chinese language press would help identify this feature.
Eden Club
Produced by Joe Peterson / 197? / Belgium / IMDb link required
In June 1975, a 493.40-meter (17:59) print of EDEN CLUB was banned by the Censorship Board.
An appeal was made to the Films Board of Review. In August 1975, they overturned the ban and awarded it an R-rating.
Blake Films was the applicant.
Current information
Any promotional material from Blake Films would help identify this feature.
Joe Peterson produced another unidentified film, SPINASH LOVE (197?), which is also listed on this page.
Mike reports
EDEN CLUB was distributed in the UK by Miracle Films. It was released in 1975, after BBFC cuts, and reissued the following year as THE ORGY. It ran 18.00, within a second of the Australian time.
Around the same time, Miracle Films submitted a short 18-minute short titled SEX ORGY, which they obtained by extracting a group sex scene from the Ed Wood’s THE ONLY HOUSE IN TOWN (1971). That too was passed after BBFC cuts. So it is possible that EDEN CLUB (aka THE ORGY) may have also been taken from a longer feature.
Spinash Love
Produced by Joe Peterson / 197? / Belgium / IMDb link required
In June 1975, a 295.00-meter (10:45) print of SPINASH LOVE was banned by the Censorship Board.
An appeal was made to the Films Board of Review. In August 1975, they overturned the ban and awarded it an R-rating.
Blake Films was the applicant.
Current information
Any promotional material from Blake Films would help identify this feature.
Joe Peterson produced another unidentified film, EDEN CLUB (197?), which is also listed on this page.
Twin Games
Directed by Unknown / 197? / France / IMDb link required
In August 1981, a 52-minute tape of TWIN GAMES was banned because of sex, which was said to be:
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: High
Purpose: Gratuitous
L&M Imports was the applicant.
This would appear to be an import of the UK pre-cert tape release on the TVX (VCL) label.
Current information
The TVX (VCL) British pre-cert would help identify this feature.
The Sex Extortionist
Produced by AM Films International / 197? / Sweden / IMDb link required
In January 1981, a 778.90-meter (70:59) 16mm print of THE SEX EXTORTIONIST was banned because of sex, which was described as being:
Frequency: Infrequent
Explicitness/Intensity: High
Purpose: Gratuitous
14th Mandolin was the applicant.
Current information
The National Classification Database lists this as a Swedish film.
However, an American one-sheet, with the same title, has a Danish cast. It lists it as being directed by Dean Ritchie and starring, Leni Killander, Brent Weidich, Hans Borrensen, Brent Warburg and Preben Ottesen.
Finding out who is AM Films International would help identify this feature.
Mike reports
Ads can be found in US newspapers in 1976 and 1977. The LA Times (June 1976), Albuquerque Tribune, New Mexico (8 February 1977) and Ithaca Journal (26 October 1977).
Quebec’s directory of classified films, repertoire.cinema.mcc.gouv.qc.ca, rejected it in December 1977 before passing it in July 1978. The title had been modified to THE SEX EXTORTIONISTS. The version ran 10-minutes shorter than the Australian submission.
I don’t think we should read too much into the claim that it is a Swedish film. It was probably a co-production of some sort with exclusively Danish actors.
Leni Kjellander’s name on the poster has been modified, and both Warburg and Weidich have had their first names changed to Brent. I think we will find that Dean Ritchie is also an alias. They were clearly trying to anglicise the film.
I’ve also had a close look at all the known Danish and Swedish films from the 1968-76 period and there aren’t any that remotely fit the plot as described on the poster.
Las Cinco maneros de ver el placer
Producer Major Video Prods / 19?? / Spain / IMDb link required
In July 1981, a 90-minute tape of LAS CINCO MANEROS DE VER EL PLACER (Spanish version) was banned because of sex, which was said to be:
Frequency: Frequent
Explicitness/Intensity: High
Purpose: Gratuitous
Cataluna Productions was the applicant.
Current information
The IMDb lists José María Cañeteas’s CINCO MANERAS DE VER EL PLACER (Translation FIVE WAYS TO SEE PLEASURE) as a 1985 production. This may be the same film, but with an incorrect date.
Mike reports
I may have an explanation for the incorrect IMDb date. It’s all to do with Spanish censorship law. In 1977, a few years after the death of General Franco, sex and nudity in films became legal, but softcore only. Sex films were given an S certificate.
In 1983, hardcore was legalised and given an X certificate and the S category was withdrawn. Essentially if you wanted to show sex in films it had to be hardcore.
LAS CINCO MANEROS DE VER EL PLACER was hardcore, so couldn’t have been released in Spain in 1981. The presence of Cyril Val, Alban Ceray and Brigitte Verbecq in the cast list suggests that it was a French-Spanish co-production and such films were often made specifically for export.
There is another reason why it might only have been intended for export originally. I understand that LAS CINCO MANERAS DE VER EL PLACER isn’t at all an idiomatic phrase, and isn’t one a native speaker would use. A Spanish audience would probably have thought it a very odd way of titling a sex film. The register of the phrase is much too formal. A much more common way of saying FIVE WAYS TO SEE PLEASURE would be CINCO MANERAS DE DISFRUTAR DEL PLACER.