Daughter of the Sun (1962 film)

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Daughter of the Sun (1962 film) - Wikipedia

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Daughter of the Sun
Directed by	Herschell Gordon Lewis
Written by	David F. Friedman; Herschell Gordon Lewis
Produced by	David F. Friedman
Starring	Rusty Allen Jerome Eden Michael Borgine Pearl Krohn Avis Holmes Darrin Ainsworth Rockwell Morrow
Cinematography	Herschell Gordon Lewis (as Marvin Lester Schmidt)
Edited by	Elsie Kerbin (as Carroll Wurkes)
Production company	Lucky Pierre Enterprises
Release date	September 1962 (1962-09)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States

Daughter of the Sun is a 1962 sexploitation comedy film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis and produced by David F. Friedman. The film follows a young teacher who may lose her job after she is discovered to be a nudist.^[1] Lewis and Friedman produced the film after the success of the 1961 nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre.^[2]

Synopsis

Schoolteacher Pamela is forced to defend herself before the board of education when it becomes known that she is a nudist. Curious about her account, Keith Lawrence goes with her to the nudist camp she is a member of so he can learn more about it.

Cast

Rusty Allen as Pamela Walker
Jerome Eden as Keith Lawrence
Michael Borgine as Grady Ives
Pearl Krohn as Olive Simmons
Avis Holmes as Martha Barns
Darrin Ainsworth as Boyd Greshen
Rockwell Morrow as Narrator

Production

The film followed up on the success of The Adventures of Lucky Pierre, a color film of the nudie cutie genre. Lewis and Friedman were determined to make a fourth film together, and decided to produce one in the nudist camp film genre, which was popular at the time. Since no nudist camps existed near Chicago at the time, Lewis and Friedman relocated to film on location in Miami, Florida. Daughter of the Sun was the first of many of Lewis' films to be shot in Miami, and to star Jerome Eden who later became a frequent collaborator of Lewis.^[3]

Despite the box office success of Lucky Pierre, Lewis and Friedman did not feel they would be able to finance another color film quickly enough to capitalize on Lucky Pierre's success. Their solution was to shoot the majority of the film on cheaper black-and-white film, leaving the more expensive color film for the nude scenes. Rusty Allen, then working as a cigarette girl, was hired as the lead for her good looks and was billed as "the most beautiful woman in the world".^[4]

Reception

Daughter of the Sun was a minor box office success and was screened in theatres for several years after its release, although it did not match the success of Lucky Pierre.^[4]

References

^ Daughter of the Sun (1962), retrieved 2021-01-16
^ Grimes, William (2016-09-28). "Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pioneer of Gore Cinema, Dies at 90 (Published 2016)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
^ Lewis, Herschell Gordon; Rausch, Andrew J. (31 October 2012). The Godfather of Gore Speaks - Herschell Gordon Lewis Discusses His Films. BearManor Media.
^ ^a ^b Palmer, Randy (2015-09-17). Herschell Gordon Lewis, Godfather of Gore: The Films. McFarland. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-4766-0464-0.

External links

Daughter of the Sun at IMDb

Films directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961)
Living Venus (1962)
Daughter of the Sun (1962)
Nature's Playmates (1962)
Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Boin-n-g! (1963)
Scum of the Earth! (1963)
Bell, Bare and Beautiful (1963)
Blood Feast (1963)
Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964)
Moonshine Mountain (1964)
Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Monster a Go-Go (1965)
Sin, Suffer and Repent (1965)
Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966)
The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)
A Taste of Blood (1967)
Something Weird (1967)
The Gruesome Twosome (1967)
The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967)
Blast-Off Girls (1967)
Suburban Roulette (1968)
She-Devils on Wheels (1968)
Just for the Hell of It (1968)
How to Make a Doll (1968)
Linda and Abilene (1969)
The Ecstasies of Women (1969)
The Wizard of Gore (1970)
Miss Nymphet's Zap-In (1970)
This Stuff'll Kill Ya! (1971)
Black Love (1971)
Year of the Yahoo! (1972)
The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002)
The Uh-Oh! Show (2009)
Herschell Gordon Lewis' BloodMania (2017)

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