Pigkeeper's Daughter, The (1972)

The Pigkeeper's Daughter is another release that lives up to Something Weird Video's elitist standard of quality sleaze. As far as the sleaze department goes, this one delivers the goods like very few others! Anyone who would be interested in a title such as this probably needs no introduction to Harry Novak. If you would, though, prefer an introduction to the man and his work I would recommend checking out the book 'Bizarre Sinema! Sexploitation Filmmakers' released by Glittering Images. This book contains a short but relatively in depth synopsis of the careers of Novak and fellow exploitation pioneers Russ Meyer, David Friedman, H.G. Lewis, Doris Wishman, Robert Lee Frost, and A.C. Stephen. If you're interested in seeing explicit trailers for his productions; you can't go wrong with almost any SWV release (Wham - Bam - Thank You, Spaceman!, Please Don't Eat My Mother, Kiss Me Quick!, and of course this excellent release).

While this is obviously the work of producer Harry Novak; credit (blame?) must also be given to director Bethel Buckalew who directed the other feature included on this disc (Sassy Sue - highly recommended!) as well as Country Cuzzins, Tobacco Roody, The Dirty Mind of Young Sally, Below the Belt, Midnight Plowboy, and Southern Comforts (trailers all included on various SWV discs).

Anyway, enough of my yammering about relating issues, on to the movie. The Pigkeeper's Daughter is nothing more than a series soft core (barely) sex romps strung together with a hillbilly storyline. If the viewer was familiar with those involved than they would have known this and been looking for it. Well, they wouldn't have been disappointed! There are never more than a few minutes straight without an unflinchingly explicit sex scene. The story stringing them together is nothing short of moronic but is definitely worth a chuckle. A traveling salesman is on his way to scam a farm family out of some money with his collection of cosmetics. On his way we comes across a naked man in walking in the streets (he was mugged for his clothes) with his arms tied to his ankles...I'll pause here to give you a moment to develop a mental picture...Since the salesman is so uninhibited, the young man's luck doesn't get any better. As he continues his voyage he comes across a young female hitchhiker who lays on the charm and in the process scams him out of $50. Finally he gets to the farm, where there is no shortage of lovin' going on. Between the pigkeeper's wife, the pigkeeper's daughter, and some young girl who likes to masturbate while watching others in action we are barraged with an onslaught of graphic sexual encounters. Occasionally, there is a break in this to remind us that there is a somewhat incoherent story going on.

Anyone who's not familiar with this type of movie will probably take the above synopsis as a severe criticism. It really isn't, this movie makes no pretensions about what it is. It is also a fine example of a short-lived subgenre involving farm oriented sex that existed before hard core movies (spearheaded by Deep Throat) came along and basically destroyed the marketability of softcore comedies.

Like I said earlier, this is another winner from SWV. We also have included here, a 30 minute theatrical short The Old Man's Bride, a gaggle of related softcore trailers, the typical gallery of exploitation art along with radio spots, and most remarkably - the feature length Sassy Sue (which is actually vastly superior to the main title). On the inlay card we have a short but humorous interview with Novak. The DVD setup is rather nice too, I haven't found any easter eggs yet, but all the menus have either music or oinking to accompany them - and the extras are listed under the menu titled Pig Slop!