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"[Lee Hessel, president of Cambist Films, bought the U.S. rights [of The Female: Seventy Times Seven], re-edited to speed up the slow pace and added sex scenes. Result? A dirty art house playoff." -- Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! (1999) by Eric Schaefer

"Led by Lee Hessel, Cambist Films in New York was one of the few companies who specialized in the more Art-style Roughies and Imported films that had a good eye for something with style which still knew how to attract the main Grindhouse audiences. In the original Roughie era of the Mid 60’s, sparked on by the success of the Lee Frost-Directed The Defilers (Made with David F. Friedman producing) and possibly remembering how well Ed Wood’s The Sinister Urge did well in the New York City Grindhouse district (Predating the scene by a couple of years), companies sprang up left and right producing these films as a welcome alternative to the Nudie Cutie."[1]

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Cambist was an American film distribution company run by Lee Hessel. They specialized in exploitation films destined for the grindhouses.

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Distributor - filmography

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) - Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) - Justine och Juliette (1975) - Wide Open Marriage (1974) - Anita - ur en tonårsflickas dagbok (1974) - La Cugina (1974) - Vampyres (1974) - The Crazies (1973) - Bordellet (1972) - Takt og tone i himmelsengen (1972) - There's Always Vanilla (1971) - Cry Uncle! (1971) - Testa t'ammazzo, croce... sei morto... Mi chiamano Alleluja (1971) - The Minx (1969) - Tumult (1969) - Sappho, Darling (1968) - Aroused (1966) - Suburbia Confidential (1966) - Rent-a-Girl (1965) - Acosada (1964)



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