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The Swedish soft-core genius made 1974's Butterflies - one of the five best foreign sex films ever made. Eric Edwards, Harry Reems and Maria Lynn, also known in hard and soft films as Maria Forsa, star. "Many women will identify with this film as they are both attracted to and repulsed by Frank - played by Harry Reems. Frank makes love nicely to many women but is faithful to none of them. "Denise, a German farm girl, is bored with the narrow-minded village she lives in and flies to Munich where nightclub owner Frank takes her over for a while before telling her to get out of his life. There is much romantic lovemaking...with hardcore closeups. This is one of the few adult films where sexual jealousy is the motivator of the action." (Bob Rimmer, Guide, p.154) As one of Frank's lovers, Maria Forsa personifies the sexual symbolism of butterflies. Sarno made several great soft flicks beginning in 1966 with Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse, followed the next year by Inga played by Marie Lilljedahl and 1973's flop Deep Throat II. Jim Holliday says that the most erotic non-explicit film ever made is Sarno's Confessions of a Young American Housewife starring Rebecca Brooke, Jennifer Welles, Chris Jordan, Eric Edwards and Arlana Blue. Holliday says this is the film where Joe Sarno taught Erik Andersson his trade. Eric Edwards returns for Sarno's 1975 Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town. Edwards: "I was taken to Europe several times during my heyday. I stayed in Sweden about six months because I loved it and also because of these two gorgeous blonde sisters, aged 18 and 21. I was much too old for them but having a ball anyway. The Swedes are more advanced than us sexually. It was back in the free love days. "I also lived with identical twins for a few days. Everyone thinks, "What a fantasy! Identical twins." It was tough because of the competition between them. They competed for my favors. "I kept my working in porn a secret from my parents. During the course of my summer stock days...I'd come back and find them [porn producers] in need of people who could act and get it up. "Back in the '70s and early '80s, they were all trying to make bigger and better products. They wanted to enhance the business by making more than a sex movie. But then the government put rules and regulations on us. We were in an uphill climb to make a good product. "We'd have gala openings. I printed my hands and feet in cement on Pussycat Theater in Santa Monica. There were Kleig lights, limos... Those were the glory days. "My first European movie was for Joe Serno. In Butterflies I starred with Harry Reems and Maria Forsa. "I found it a great joy to be flown to Europe, put up in a hotel and get paid to have sex also. Those were softcore films though I couldn't help myself with Maria. I did it hard anyway. Maria and I had a fling. It was wonderful. She was just my style. Whenever I'd go back to Europe, we couldn't help ourselves. We screwed everywhere - out in the bushes, in the jacuzzi, anywhere we could, even in dangerous places where you could get caught such as in a public pool where people could walk in any time. We'd do it five or six times a day. Those were my good ol' days. "All those movies I did for Joe Sarno were treats. We'd go out to the Stockholm Archipelago, ferried out by boat, and stay in a cabin. I ate all those strange foods like krefta and that horrible smelling herring... I tried it all. I tasted every bit of life that I could." Sarno lives in New York during the winter and Stockholm during the summer. He is sometimes credited as Anthony Farrar, Lawrence Henning and Hammond Thomas. In the year 2000, Joe came out of retirement at age 79 to shoot a couple of hetero porn movies with Gino Colbert.The Internet Movie Database credits him with the following productions: 1. Stora och små män (1995)[Actor .... An American man in the custom] ... aka Big Men, Little Men (1995) 2. Wolf Cubs (1983)[Director] 3. Fäbodjäntan (1978)[Director (as Lawrence Henning)] [Writer (as Lawrence Henning)] ... aka Come Blow the Horn! (1978) ... aka Fäbodjäntan eller Ta' mej i Dalarna (1978) 4. Confessions of a Young American Housewife (1978)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Confessions of an American Housewife (1978) 5. Kärleksön (1978)[Director (as Hammond Thomas)] ... aka Love's Island (1978) 6. Laura's Toys (1975)[Director] [Writer] 7. Abagail Leslie is Back! (1974)[Director] ... aka Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town (1974) ... aka Misty (1974) ... aka Sexpert, The (1974) 8. Switch, The (1974)[Director] [Writer] 9. Baby Love (1973)[Director] [Writer] 10. Butterflies (1973)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Lifterskan (1973) (Swedish title) ... aka Young Butterflies (1973) 11. Deep Throat II (1973)[Director] [Writer] 12. Flucht der schwarzen Schwestern, Die (1973)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Möte med djävulen (1974) (Swedish title) ... aka Pornografiske Jungfrun, Den (1977) ... aka Veil of Blood (1973) (US title) 13. Vild på Sex (1973)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Bibi - Sünding und süss (1973) ... aka Confessions of a Sex Kitten (1973) 14. Every Afternoon (1972)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Swedish Wildcats (1972) 15. Love in the 3rd Position (1972)[Director] [Writer] 16. Young Playthings (1972)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Red Queen, The (1972) 17. Någon att älska (1971)[Director] ... aka Inga Two (1971) ... aka Inga and Greta (1971) 18. Young Erotic Fanny Hill, The (1970)[Director] [Writer] 19. Marcy (1969)[Director] [Writer] 20. Kvinnolek (1968)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Kom i min säng (1969) (reissue title) ... aka To Ingrid, My Love, Lisa (1968) ... aka Yes! (1968) 21. Daddy, Darling! (1968)[Director] [Writer] 22. Desire Under the Palms (1968)[Director] 23. Indelicate Balance (1968)[Director] 24. Karla (1968)[Director] 25. Layout, The (1968)[Director] 26. Odd Triangle, The (1968)[Director] [Writer] 27. All the Sins of Sodom (1967)[Director] 28. Beach House, The (1967)[Director] 29. Jag - en oskuld (1967)[Director] [Editor] [Producer (Inskafilm ltd.)] [Writer] ... aka Inga (1967) ... aka Inga: I Have Lust (1967) ... aka Inga: I, a Virgin (1967) ... aka Kom i min säng (1967) 30. My Body Hungers (1967)[Director] 31. Passion in Hot Hollows (1967)[Director] 32. Vibrations (1967)[Director] 33. Wall of Flesh (1967)[Director] 34. Anything for Money (1966)[Director] 35. Bed of Violence (1966)[Director] [Writer] 36. Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse (1966)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Ride the Wild Pink Horse (1966) 37. Deep Inside (1966)[Director] 38. Magic Touch, The (1966)[Director] 39. Moonlighting Wives (1966)[Director] [Writer] 40. Naked Fog, The (1966)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Night Fog (1966) 41. Red Roses of Passion (1966)[Director] 42. Scarf of Mist Thigh of Satin (1966)[Director] [Writer] 43. Sex Cycle, The (1966)[Director] 44. Skin Deep in Love (1966)[Director] ... aka Deep in Love (1966) 45. Swap and How They Made It, The (1966)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Swap, The (1966) 46. Bed and How They Made It, The (1965)[Director] ... aka Bed and How to Make It!, The (1965) 47. Love Merchant, The (1965)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Another Woman, Another Day (1965) ... aka Love Merchants (1965) 48. Love Rebellion, The (1965)[Director] [Writer] 49. Flesh and Lace (1964)[Director] [Writer] ... aka Fresh 'n' Lacey (1964) 50. Step Out of Your Mines (1964)[Director] 51. Lace Rope, The (1963)[Director] 52. Pandora's Box (1963)[Director] 53. Warm Nights and Hot Pleasures (1963)[Director] ... aka Warm Nights and Secret Pleasures (1963) 54. Lash of Lust (1962)[Director] 55. Nude in the Charcoal (1962)[Director] 56. Sin in the Suburbs (1962)[Director] [Writer] 57. Sin, You Sinners (1961)[Director (as Anthony Farrar)] [Writer (as Anthony Farrar)]
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