This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray. The limited edition slipcover was limited to 1,000 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover.
The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) represents the world's largest theatrical catalog of exploitation cinema. Their home video line presents a diverse selection of movies, ranging from new preservations of classics from the vast library of Something Weird to the wildest in shot-on-video (SOV) titles. Vinegar Syndrome’s sister company, OCN Distribution, is thrilled to be representing this diverse and unique home video line!
Ed Wood was the filmmaker behind PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and GLEN OR GLENDA, the author of hundreds of novels, and a pall-bearer at Bela Lugosi's funeral. Wood fought in the Pacific Ocean theater during World War II while wearing a bra and panties under his uniform. Basically, there will never be another hero like Ed Wood. And there will never be another movie like TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE. Once thought lost, this surreal sexploitation detective comedy would feel right at home on a triple-bill with John Waters’s MULTIPLE MANIACS and Russ Meyer’s THE IMMORAL MR. TEAS. With delirious narration by Wood himself, positive depictions of LGBTQ relationships, and a miraculous role by Ed Wood in drag as “Alecia,” TAKE IT OUT IN TRADE is a joyous swan song from one of the most seminal exploitation filmmakers of all time.
directed by: Edward D. Wood, Jr.
starring: Various
1970 / 70 min / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 1.0
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Overall rating: 4.207207 / 5 from 111 reviews.
This Blu-ray release of 'Take It Out in Trade' by Ed Wood, presented by AGFA, is highly praised for its excellent quality, impressive restoration, and engaging extras. The transfer and commentary are particularly lauded, though opinions on the film itself vary.
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"I’m giving this 3 stars because I’m sure there is an audience for this. So I will say there is a good bit of Ed Wood acting so that’s cool. The transfer is very watchable and a bonus with lots of Ed Wood. The 70s lighting is really cruel there is no story at all just makes 70s style bodies rolling around. Like I said I know there are people who will appreciate this and not very movie is for everyone,"
"Bare-ly a movie! I love how much Michael Donovan O'Donnell is just grinning ear to ear like an adolescent constantly spying behind not at all conspicuous large plants inside of every naked woman's room. This was around the time when from all reports Ed Wood went deep into the world of smut movies and got deeper into alcoholic waste, but you frankly wouldn't know that it was made by a desperate man so much as my a gleeful if untalented showman. It is never quite rises past being inept in the ways of, you know, how a film can or should be shot or framed or lit or edited (if Godard saw this he might have regretted starting off the Jump Cut style, and that amuses me), but the majority of the performers seem to be having vivacious (largely softcore) sexual situations and just having a generally fun time, as if Wood off screen was getting jubilant the more they were dancing and falling over one another. Practically all of the scenes that should involve hardcore fucking look hilariously like, at least when it is man on woman, when you were a kid and smashed your action figures together to simulate then having sex with each other. It also gets positively kinky and manic in the final ten minutes and that is much appreciated. Other times when it is lady on lady, it is a little more sensual and almost truly erotically charged - as opposed to over-long and kind of icky when it is the guys and their mangy hairy mugs - probably because Ed just let them do what they wanted (many a pool table is used well to put it that way). The highlight of this largely slipshod Hippie-Free-Love-adjacent *Detective mystery* story, which only remembers its plot by around the one hour mark and makes Inherent Vice look like the most lucid piece of filmmaking ever, is Wood in his few minutes on screen. He knows what he wants from himself and can deliver his campy lines with commitment; I wonder if he had lived past the 1970s if John Waters might have picked him up for parts in his ensemble."
"Everything about this movie I found mediocre and maybe below average"
"Ed Wood is a true American hero."
"I love Ed Wood, he persevered when others would have given up and he created a singular legacy that is surprisingly entertaining ⭐️⭐️⭐️"
"An interesting film from Ed Wood."
"The hottest mind bender"
"I can say I have an Ed Wood porno. I'm free to watch it whenever I want."
"Fantastic restoration by the good people of AGFA. I'm just dipping my toes into Ed Wood's filmography now and this is one of the best places to start. Take Frank Henenlotter's word for it, it's a real shocker!"
"Great collection you need this one your shelf"
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