Scum of the Earth

Synopsis: Kim Sherwood is a young naive teenager who is asked by a friend to model for a shady photographer named Harmon. The photographer works for an unscrupulous businessman who is in league with a local Miami teenage gang in illegally selling photos of young girls in the nude being used and abused. When Kim wants out, the gangster Mr. Lang, blackmails her into staying on by using his strong-armed thugs to enforce order.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Production: Box Office Spectaculars
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.5
NOT RATED
Year:
1963
75 min
50 Views


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Come on, Sandy.

I promised Lang these pictures tomorrow.

We'll be here all night

trying to get this thing finished.

Keep your shirt on, buster.

I'll keep my shirt on. You

just take yours off.

I've got to get the lines

out of my body.

Ha! Don't worry, baby.

I'll get the lines out for ya.

Comin'.

Do I have to pose with that ape again?

Well, it's what Lang wants.

Well, he knows he's gonna

have to pay me more for this job.

- He knows.

- Well, I still don't like it.

He knows that, too.

She knows I mean it, huh, Harmon?

Hey, them were some pretty good pictures

you made that day.

Well, the best sellers we ever had.

Sandra got a 100-buck bonus.

Just remember you got one coming.

One of these days, I'm gonna spill

the beans on this little deal.

What beans?

Pictures of you from every angle?

Or maybe the pictures of Ajax here

whaling the tar out of you.

I'll even give you some prints.

You can use them for evidence.

You no good, rotten...

Shut up, you!

Come on, come on, let's get going.

- Want me to help?

- No!

No, I can do it myself.

OK, Ajax, come on. Help me move

that stuff back over there, will ya?

And look out for the booze.

OK, now, Sandy. Sit down.

Let's make this nice and easy.

Drape it over here.

Bring it across the back.

I want you to bring your arms up.

OK.

OK, now, Sandy. Let's start off with, uh,

you know, nice and easy,

with an art pose or two.

Give me the hands behind your head.

That's right. Give me the hands behind.

Straighten up your back, honey.

Pull your shoulders back.

That's a girl. Come on, now.

Give me a nice smile.

Come on, come on. That's it. Now hold it.

Now, let's have, um...

Oh, how about "hands at

the glory of sun" bit.

Put your hands up.

Up.

Ajax, tilt that light up

a little bit, will ya?

Yeah, that's perfect.

OK... Come on, Sandy.

Let's cooperate a little, huh?

Now you're really a beautiful girl,

so let's look that way.

Come on, stretch a little.

That's it. That's it.

Harmon, you're really a great photographer.

Why don't you give this up

and try and do something decent?

Why don't you?

You know why.

I'm in this up to my... eyeballs.

Yup. Me too, Sandy.

You know, uh, I'm sorry what I said before.

You know I like you, but...

Oh, what the hell.

Come on! Let's move!

- Or I call Mr. Lang, huh?

- Drop dead, you creep.

OK, Sandy. Come on.

Let's shoot something interesting.

You know, the stuff that sells?

More of those?

Oh, for...

All right.

But remember, I'm not double-jointed.

Yeah, but the...

The high school kids who buy these pictures

think you are.

Let's try anyway-

Tell you what, why don't you try

a different angle?

Yeah, that's a good angle.

But I wanna see it from the other side.

Ah, that's, uh...

that... that's beautiful.

Now hold it.

OK. Just one more.

Anybody got any ideas?

Say, now that's an idea.

Wow!

Wait till Lang sees this one.

Keep that ape away from me!

Harmon? Harmon!

Oh, come on, Sandy. Just a cuddle. You

said you'd do it. Let's get it over with.

No, not with him! He...

He what that you don't know

plenty about already?

No! No!

Stop it, you gorilla!

Ah, shut up. You know you love me.

Stop it!

Stop it!

Stop it! Stop it!

Harmon! Stop him!

Can't you see what he's doing?

I can see.

All right, Harmon. Let's go to work.

Print up 100 of this one.

And this one.

And this one.

And get rid of the rest of 'em.

What's the matter, Sandra?

You got a problem?

Yes, the usual one.

You've certainly seen enough of me by now.

I'm about due for retirement.

Well, let's see.

Sandra, my dear, your, uh...

your modeling has been fairly successful.

Our payroll record shows that

including what you've received today,

you have an income,

and please, report it

to the Internal Revenue Department,

of nearly $9,000 this year.

Well, you ask Larry.

He says my pictures are

getting hard to sell.

Yes, my dear.

I tend to agree with that.

Uh, I think Sandra is right, Mr. Lang.

We ought to let her get out.

Well, well!

I didn't know we had

a personal interest in this.

Sandra, my dear,

we've, uh, talked about this

many times before,

and, uh, this time,

I think you've made your point.

You mean I can get out?

Uh, as a model, yes.

But you wouldn't wanna give up

all of this nice money, would you?

Harmon, say hello

to our new recruiting agent.

Yes, Sandra, my dear.

Your new job will be to find us

new, fresh talent.

Ajax will help you.

Ajax has an eye for beauty.

An eye isn't all he has. I want out.

Let me finish, please.

You'll be paid well for your new work.

Our salesmen have been promised

a continuous flow of product.

So, if you're unable

to find us new, fresh talent,

you'll have to do the modeling yourself.

During the recruitment period,

it might prove helpful

if you pose with the new girl.

Sort of get her over her

initial embarrassment.

But understand this.

If you don't secure us

the new, fresh talent,

we're going to have to have

a broader variety of poses

if you're to do the modeling yourself.

I'll bring her up,

but you're gonna have to sell her.

I can't do any more. She's a sweet kid.

Yeah, yeah. She may be,

but, uh, Ajax told Lang, and Lang told me,

and I'm telling you.

This is the girl we want.

Now I just do my job, you do yours.

And remember this,

this is one way to keep Ajax away from you.

Kim, this is Harmon.

- Hello.

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Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1926 – September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore" (a title also given to Lucio Fulci), though his film career included works in a range of exploitation film genres including juvenile delinquent films, nudie-cuties, two children's films and at least one rural comedy. On Lewis' career, AllMovie wrote: "With his better-known gore films, Herschell Gordon Lewis was a pioneer, going farther than anyone else dared, probing the depths of disgust and discomfort onscreen with more bad taste and imagination than anyone of his era." more…

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