Is There Sex After Death?
Directed byAlan Abel
Jeanne Abel
Written byAlan Abel
Jeanne Abel
Buck Henry
Produced byAlan Abel
Jeanne Abel
Michael Rothschild
StarringBuck Henry
Robert Downey, Sr.
Marshall Efron
Holly Woodlawn
Jim Moran
Earle Doud
Larry Wolf
CinematographyArthur Albert
Gerald Cotts
Edited byJeanne Abel
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Is There Sex After Death? is a 1971 mockumentary and mondo film.

Plot

Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation searches out luminary figures in the world of sex. According to the movie, the answer to the title question is: "No, only affection".

Cast

Controversy

On March 12, 1980, the ON TV pay channel aired the film on WXON (channel 20, now WMYD) in Detroit. It was scheduled to air again ten days later, but it did not. WXON station manager Aben Johnson, who was alerted to the film's content (including sex and nudity) by a station employee during its original airing, decided against showing it again, substituting Saturday Night Fever instead. ON TV's policy at the time forbade showing any films with an X rating, for adults only; Is There Sex After Death? was apparently not given a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America at all until 1975, when it was granted an 'R' certificate, making the movie seemingly within ON's standards. Still, WXON never showed the film again on its ON TV affiliate, which closed in 1983.[1]

See also

References

  1. Stoehr, Chris (March 26, 1980). "The movie was too sexy for Channel 20". Detroit Free Press. p. 8D. Retrieved January 24, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
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