This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.This anti-porn short film shows a flood tide of filth engulfing the country in the form of newsstand obscenity.
Damian O'Flynn
- The Judge
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAt one point announcer George Putnam, arguing for the banning of "obscene" materials, says, "This is a nation of laws". The uncredited producer of this film, Charles Keating--the founder of an "anti-pornography" organization called Citizens for Decent Literature, which actually produced the film--was on President Richard Nixon's Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1969. He is the same Charles Keating who, as president of Lincoln Savings & Loan in the late 1980s, was convicted of multiple counts of wire fraud, racketeering and conspiracy due to his involvement in financial shenanigans which led to the collapse of Lincoln Savings, which ultimately cost the US government over $3 billion and which resulted in more than 23,000 depositors losing most or all of the money they had deposited in Lincoln Savings. He served 4-1/2 years in prison before being released in 1996.
- Quotes
George Putnam: Hello there. I'm George Putnam. I'd like to begin with a fact, a simple yet shocking fact. It is this - a floodtide of filth is engulfing our country in the form of newsstand obscenity and is threatening to pervert an entire generation of our American children.
- Crazy creditsThe opening credits say "with George Putnam, outstanding news reporter"
- ConnectionsFeatured in Heavy Petting (1989)
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Ya Got Trouble
Watching this 49 year old film from the perspective of same sex marriage rapidly gaining ground throughout the USA and civil right statutes for sexual orientation and gender identity being passed and enforced, one can only marvel at the sea change in attitude in half a century. Four years after this film and it does spend a good deal of time attacking gays, the Stonewall Rebellion took place.
Perversion For Profit is at the same level as Reefer Madness. I have no doubt that this was a work personally conceived by J. Edgar Hoover. The presence of George Putnam as narrator who was a running buddy of Hoover in the same manner that Walter Winchell was gives credence to that belief. During the course of the narration Putnam makes mention of the fact that our opponents in the Cold War, the Communists are at least applauding America's descent into 'degeneracy'. Putnam used the phrase Masters Of Deceit which was a book authored under Hoover's name and the phrase was that the Communists were masters of deceit.
I've also no doubt that after seeing this film those so inclined to alternative sexual expression went racing around their towns to find if their outlets for porn were still secure or seeking to acquire new ones.
Putnam's strident narration leaves us no doubt that the number one problem in America was porn, that it led people into all kinds of immoral behavior. Not race relations, not poverty, not the environment, kids getting their rocks off over something salacious and turning into polymorphous perverse. Does that not sound familiar?
Listening to Putnam among other things that ran through my mind was Robert Preston telling the folks of River City about their number one problem with that pool hall. No doubt the yokels of 1965 just ate this up.
George Putnam lived to the ripe old age of 94 dying in 2008. I can only imagine what he thought of the America he was leaving.
Perversion For Profit is at the same level as Reefer Madness. I have no doubt that this was a work personally conceived by J. Edgar Hoover. The presence of George Putnam as narrator who was a running buddy of Hoover in the same manner that Walter Winchell was gives credence to that belief. During the course of the narration Putnam makes mention of the fact that our opponents in the Cold War, the Communists are at least applauding America's descent into 'degeneracy'. Putnam used the phrase Masters Of Deceit which was a book authored under Hoover's name and the phrase was that the Communists were masters of deceit.
I've also no doubt that after seeing this film those so inclined to alternative sexual expression went racing around their towns to find if their outlets for porn were still secure or seeking to acquire new ones.
Putnam's strident narration leaves us no doubt that the number one problem in America was porn, that it led people into all kinds of immoral behavior. Not race relations, not poverty, not the environment, kids getting their rocks off over something salacious and turning into polymorphous perverse. Does that not sound familiar?
Listening to Putnam among other things that ran through my mind was Robert Preston telling the folks of River City about their number one problem with that pool hall. No doubt the yokels of 1965 just ate this up.
George Putnam lived to the ripe old age of 94 dying in 2008. I can only imagine what he thought of the America he was leaving.
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- Mar 23, 2014
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- Runtime29 minutes
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