Take it Out in Trade

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Take it Out in Trade
Directed by	Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Produced by	Edward Ashdown; Richard Gonzalez
Written by	Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Starring	Edward D. Wood, Jr. Duke Moore Nona Carver Michael Donovan O'Donnell Linda Colpin
Cinematography	Hal Guthu
Editing by	Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Distributed by	Ashdown-Gonzalez Productions
Release date(s)	1970
Running time	80 mins
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Take it Out in Trade is a 1970 soft-core pornographic comedy, written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr.. The plot centers around a couple who hire a private investigator (Duke Moore) to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute," full of various soft-core couplings. The film has never been made available on home video, and may be lost.

[edit] Cast

• Nona Carver - Sleazy Maisie Rumpledinck
• Duke Moore - Frank Riley
• Michael Donovan O'Donnell - Frank Riley
• Donna Stanley - Shirley Riley
• Edward D. Wood, Jr. - Alecia
• Linda Colpin

Apart from The Amazing Criswell (who appeared in Orgy of the Dead), Duke Moore is the only one of Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s stable of actors from his 1950s films to appear in one of his sexploitation films. Nona Carver was a girlfriend of Wood regular Kenne Duncan. Wood himself appeared in the film as a transvestite named "Alecia", footage of which can be seen in Take it Out in Trade: The Outtakes.

[edit] Unavailability

Take it Out in Trade has never been released on any home video format. It is commonly believed to be a lost film, and is listed as such on IMDb.[1] However, in his Edward D. Wood, Jr. biography Nightmare of Ecstasy, Rudolph Grey claims to have discovered a rare copy during his research. He reports that the film has "psychadelic touches," with red being dominant in the film's visual scheme. The website of Something Weird Video also claims that it is not a lost film[2]. In the 1990s, three reels of silent outtake footage was discovered in the projection booth of a Santa Monica movie theatre containing bloopers, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, and alternate takes. The footage was released on VHS in 1995 by Something Weird Video as Take it Out in Trade: The Outtakes. This remains the only footage of Take it Out in Trade that has been released on home video.

v • d • e Edward D. Wood, Jr. Feature films directed Glen or Glenda (1953) • Jail Bait (1954) • Bride of the Monster (1955) • Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) • Night of the Ghouls (1959) • The Sinister Urge (1961) • Take it Out in Trade (1970) • Excited (1970) • The Only House in Town (1971) • Necromania (1971) • The Young Marrieds (1971) Short films directed Trick Shooting with Kenne Duncan (1953) • Final Curtain (1957) • The Night the Banshee Cried (1957) • Television films directed The Sun Was Setting (1951) • Crossroad Avenger: The Adventures of the Tucson Kid' (1953) • Boots (1953) Films written, not directed The Violent Years (1956) • The Bride and the Beast (1958) • Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) • Shotgun Wedding (1963) • Orgy of the Dead (1965) • One Million AC/DC (1969) • The Love Feast (1969) • The Venus Flytrap (1971) • The Undergraduate (1972) • Drop-Out Wife (1972) • Class Reunion (1972) • The Snow Bunnies (1972) • The Cocktail Hostesses (1973) • Five Loose Women (1974) • The Beach Bunnies (1976) • Hot Ice (1978 film) (1978) Posthumous films Crossroads of Laredo (filmed 1948/released 1995) • Hellborn (filmed mid-1950s; released 1993) • Take it Out in Trade: The Outtakes (filmed 1970; released 1995) • I Woke Up Early The Day I Died (written 1970s; released 1998) Related articles Béla Lugosi • The Golden Turkey Awards • Dolores Fuller • Conrad Brooks • Tor Johnson • Vampira • Bunny Breckinridge • The Amazing Criswell • Stephen C. Apostolof • Ed Wood (biopic)