A look at the battles Hugh Hefner fought over the years against the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists.A look at the battles Hugh Hefner fought over the years against the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists.A look at the battles Hugh Hefner fought over the years against the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists.
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Larry Adler
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- (archive footage)
Bobbie Arnstein
- Self
- (archive footage)
Count Basie
- Self
- (archive footage)
Malcolm Boyd
- Self - Author
- (as Reverend Malcolm Boyd)
Ray Bradbury
- Self
- (archive footage)
Lenny Bruce
- Self
- (archive footage)
William F. Buckley
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as William F. Buckley Jr.)
Vincent Bugliosi
- Self - Attorney
- (as Vince Bugliosi)
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Kimberley Conrad
- Self
- (archive footage)
Country Joe and the Fish
- Themselves
- (archive footage)
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- Alternate versionsAfter premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009 in a 135 min. version, the film was later trimmed down to its current 124 minutes length.
- ConnectionsFeatures Probe and Night Beat (1956)
- SoundtracksAt the Jazz Band Ball
Performed by The Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Orchestra
Written by Nick LaRocca (as Nick La Rocca) and Larry Shields
Arranged by Joshua Goodman
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A Great Documentary for Yokels
Fifty years ago or so, I read a letter-to-the-editor in Playboy that went something like this: "Playboy is a magazine for yokels." Even though I was a subscriber, I sort of knew what the correspondent meant. There was something cheesy about the hip bachelor image that Hefner lived and espoused. Despite the great stories by Jean Shepard, the beautiful Vargas paintings, and the lovely naked girls-next-door, it struck me that the Playboy Philosophy was just too damned cornball in the end. The nighttime TV series "Playboy Penthouse" which aired around the same time was equally corny, what with the thirty-plus aged men in their Nehru jackets and medallions pretending to enjoy watching Spanky and Our Gang lip-synching a pop tune.
This puff-piece of a documentary is just as cheesy, just as corny, as the magazine was back then and would continue to be as the years progressed. "Entertainment for Yokels" should be the motto of the magazine and it sure would apply to this silly (albeit entertaining) film.
This puff-piece of a documentary is just as cheesy, just as corny, as the magazine was back then and would continue to be as the years progressed. "Entertainment for Yokels" should be the motto of the magazine and it sure would apply to this silly (albeit entertaining) film.
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- Хью Хефнер: Плейбой, активист и бунтарь
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- Gross US & Canada
- $10,000
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,000
- Aug 1, 2010
- Gross worldwide
- $10,000
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
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- 16:9 HD
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By what name was Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009) officially released in Canada in English?
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