
Erotic Confession of the Day: They may not make a bundle on every title, but the DVD peddlers at the Los Angeles-based Shout Factory do a fine job of restoring and re-releasing drive-in smut that has long been shrouded by obscurity.
Up next in the Shout Factory queue? A triple-feature which includes Don Schain’s Too Hot to Handle, starring the raspy-voiced blonde (and director Schain’s then-spouse) Cheri Caffaro.
Caffaro was an exploitation starlet in the 70s best known for playing Ginger McAllister in a trilogy of sleazy James Bond send-ups (Ginger, The Abductors, Girls are for Loving – all based in New Jersey, no less). Caffaro was a ballsy one, all right, pulling PR stunts such as showing up naked for an interview with esteemed New York Post columnist Earl Wilson in Manhattan’s Sherry Netherland Hotel and totally unafraid of engaging in bondage and rape scenes in Schain’s films.
But all this lowbrow filmmaking wasn’t just for the Garden State raincoat club. Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Lonesome Dove) and Oscar-winning screenwriter (Brokeback Mountain) Larry McMurtry loved the woman’s work, or so he confided in his movie essay collection Film Flam and shared with me in a handwritten letter from a few years ago.
“Someone stole all her videos from my house,” McMurtry writes. “I think I had five.”
See McMurtry’s letter and clips from Too Hot to Handle after the jump.

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