Director: Arnold L. Miller
Year: 1965
Country: UK
Language: English
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired
Length: 85 mins
Format: PAL | R2
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: 15

Synopsis

The follow-up to London in the Raw, Primitive London sets out to reflect society's decay through a sideshow spectacle of 1960s London depravity. Here, we confront mods, rockers and beatniks at the Ace Café, 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.

Special Features

- 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)
- Illustrated booklet with essays by Iain Sinclair, Vic Pratt and William Fowler