Type: DVD

Genre: Experimental/ Documentary

Year: 1965

Format: 1.33:1

TV System: Pal

Code: Region Code 2

Language: English

Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired

Extras: See text

FSK: 15+

Label: British Film Institute

The sensational follow-up to London in the Raw sets out to reflect society's decay through a sideshow spectacle of 1960s London depravity - and manages to outdo its predecessor. Here, we confront mods, rockers and beatniks at the Ace Cafe, cut some rug with obscure beat band The Zephyrs, witness a seedy Jack the Ripper re-enactment, smirk at flabby men in the sauna and goggle at sordid wife-swapping parties as we discover a pre-permissive Britain still trying to move on from the post-war depression of the 1950s.

Extras:

- Remastered to HD from the original negative
- English and French language versions of feature and trailer
- Carousella (John Irvin, 1965, 23 mins): a dramatised documentary on the lives of a group of striptease artistes
- Stuart McCabe (strip club manager) interview (1968,15 mins)
- Shirley (stripper) interview (1968, 6 mins)
- Al Burnett (nightclub owner) interview (1967,17 mins)
- Original trailer (English and French language options)
- Illustrated booklet with essays by Iain Sinclair, Vic Pratt (BFI Curator) and William Fowler (BFI Curator); original review and promotional material