Joseph W. Sarno

Birthday: 1921-03-15
Deathday: 2010-04-26
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender: Male

Joseph W. Sarno (March 15, 1921 – April 26, 2010) was an American film director and screenwriter.

One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation, softcore and hardcore genres as well as a number of  shot-on-video features for the '80s hardcore video market.

Sarno, a pioneer of the sexploitation film genre, completed his first adult-oriented feature in 1961. Among his best-known films in the genre are Sin in the Suburbs (1964), Flesh and Lace, The Bed and How to Make It, and Moonlighting Wives (1966). Sarno's work of the sexploitation period is typified by stark chiaroscuro lighting, long takes and rigorous staging. He was also well known for scenarios centering around issues of psycho-sexual anxiety and sexual identity development.

During his sexploitation period, Sarno worked with such actors as Uta Erickson, Dyanne Thorne (star of the Ilsa series), Audrey Campbell (Olga's House of Shame series), Michael Alaimo, Patricia McNair, Tod Moore, and his cousin, Joe Santos, who would become a regular on television's The Rockford Files.

Beginning in 1968, Sarno's work became somewhat more explicit, predicting the emergence of soft-core. His breakthrough feature Inga (1968), was one of the first X-rated films released in the United States. Other noteworthy soft-core features include Vibrations (1968), Passion in Hot Hollows (1969), Daddy, Darling (1970), Young Playthings (1972), Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1974) and Misty (1975). Sarno was also the director of Deep Throat Part 2 (1974), the R-rated sequel to the hardcore classic Deep Throat.

After 1968, Sarno's soft-core work was divided between films produced in the United States and films produced in Europe, principally Sweden, Germany and Denmark. Many of Sarno's European features were made with American backing. In Europe, he was known for having worked with actresses Marie Liljedahl, Christina Lindberg, Helli Louise, and Marie Forså.

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Credits

Year Title
2004-01-01 Suburban Secrets
1990-01-01 Screw the Right Thing
1989-12-01 Hung Jury
1989-08-08 Coming On America
1989-06-22 The Erotic Adventures of Bedman and Throbbin
1989-05-18 The Red Head
1989-02-23 Hyperkink
1989-01-01 The Big Pink
1988-12-31 Suzie Creamcheese
1988-11-17 Sex Starved
1988-03-10 On Fire
1988-02-25 Ball in the Family
1988-01-01 The Horneymooners
1988-01-01 Sacrilege
1988-01-01 The Flirt
1988-01-01 Panting at the Opera
1988-01-01 The Girls of the B.L.O.
1987-12-31 Double Agent
1987-06-09 Fresh
1987-01-01 Sexpionage
1987-01-01 Party Doll
1987-01-01 Sexpot
1986-01-01 Firebox
1986-01-01 Bedroom Thighs
1986-01-01 Oversexed
1986-01-01 Porked!
1986-01-01 Blow by Blow
1985-10-17 Shacking Up
1985-04-20 Taste of Pink
1985-04-20 Tight Delight
1985-01-01 Little Oral Annie Takes Manhattan
1984-03-03 Hot Stuff
1984-01-01 Stray Cats
1984-01-01 Inside Little Oral Annie
1984-01-01 Dirty Blonde
1983-01-01 SS Operation Wolf Cub
1981-03-24 Silky
1981-01-01 Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle
1979-01-01 Tigresses
1978-12-14 All About Gloria Leonard
1978-09-25 Fäbodjäntan
1977-11-28 Love's Island
1977-07-15 Inside Jennifer Welles
1977-03-04 The Trouble with Young Stuff
1976-12-01 The Honey Cup
1976-10-01 Misty
1976-04-01 Slippery When Wet
1975-09-01 Abigail Leslie Is Back in Town
1975-03-14 Butterfly
1975-01-01 Laura's Toys
1974-12-01 The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego
1974-06-11 Confessions of a Young American Housewife
1974-05-23 A Touch of Genie
1974-05-10 Bibi
1974-02-01 Deep Throat Part II
1973-10-15 The Devil's Plaything
1973-09-24 Sleepy Head
1972-01-20 Swedish Wildcats
1972-01-01 Young Playthings
1971-08-26 Siv, Anne & Sven
1970-11-01 Daddy, Darling
1970-09-24 The Young, Erotic Fanny Hill
1969-08-27 Karla
1969-07-30 Passion in Hot Hollows
1969-07-16 Marcy
1969-05-11 The Indelicate Balance
1969-01-01 The Layout
1968-10-29 The Wall of Flesh
1968-10-18 The Seduction of Inga
1968-08-07 To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa
1968-06-17 All the Sins of Sodom
1968-04-13 Inga
1968-01-01 Odd Triangle
1968-01-01 Vibrations
1968-01-01 Desire Under The Palms
1967-12-27 Deep Inside
1967-10-01 The Love Rebellion
1967-09-01 My Body Hungers
1967-08-31 Bed of Violence
1967-08-09 Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse
1967-05-01 Anything for Money
1967-01-23 The Sex Cycle
1967-01-01 Scarf of Mist, Thigh of Satin
1966-12-04 The Bed and How to Make It!
1966-09-21 Moonlighting Wives
1966-05-26 The Swap and How They Make It
1966-03-23 The Naked Fog
1966-01-01 A Sneak Peek at Strip Poker
1966-01-01 The Love Merchant
1966-01-01 Red Roses of Passion
1966-01-01 Skin Deep in Love
1965-12-01 Flesh and Lace
1965-01-01 Pandora and the Magic Box
1965-01-01 A-Peeling We Go-Go
1964-10-03 Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures
1964-02-21 Sin in the Suburbs
1963-01-01 Sin You Sinners
1961-03-01 Nude in Charcoal