Stanley Long
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley Long (Born in 1933 in South London) often known as Stanley A. Long is a British Exploitation cinema and sexploitation filmmaker. He was 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) to a more relaxed attitude to permissive material (Naughty, 1971) to out and out comedies at the end of the 1970s.
He made all the 'adventures' sex comedy movies in the 1970s such as Adventures of a Taxi Driver starring Barry Evans.
Like Norman J. Warren he also made horrors. He made horror anthology movie Screamtime in 1983 [1] and was due to film a David McGillivray script entitled ‘Plasmid’, about mutants living in London’s Underground, until the production ran into trouble at the 11th hour. Confusingly a tie-in novel of Plasmid was however released.
Long was also the cameraman on several british horror films of the 1960s including The Blood Beast Terror, (uncredited) Repulsion 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 documentary series about various aspects of filmmaking, hosted by Paul Martin of Flog It!. In addition he plans to release the ‘Adventures of’ comedies to DVD, as well as three of his more obscure films, On the Game, Sex and the Other Woman and This That and the Other.
Simon Sheridan’s biography of Long is due in June 2007.
