| Hot Summer in the City | |
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DVD Cover from Alpha Blue Archives |
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| Directed by | Gail Palmer |
| Produced by | Harry Mahoney |
| Written by | Gail Palmer |
| Starring | Lisa Baker Duke Johnson Black Orchid |
| Release date(s) | July 14, 1976 |
| Running time | 58 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Hot Summer in the City is a 1976 adult film by director Gail Palmer aka "The Hare". The film is a co-production of Imperial Films with Palmer's HARE Films. The film is about a white virgin who is abducted by a group of black militants.
The film is classified as a classical roughie with its depiction of sexual violence on females. It also employs many of the popular blaxploitation themes of the period. Throughout the film the radio plays songs by Robert Knight, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Doors, and The Shangri-Las, while Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful is used as the theme song.
Silver, Murray "When Elvis Meets the Dalai Lama" (Bonaventure Books, 2005), in which the author relates his experience in trying to help Gail Palmer write her autobiography and details the making of her first movie, "Hot Summer in the City".