![]() ‘Debbie Does Dallas’ also made a star out of the lead actress, Bambi Woods. Part of the huge success of ‘Debbie Does Dallas’ is attributed to the publicity it attracted at the time – due to the well-known locations that Buckley used, and also a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the Dallas Cowboys football team. When we interviewed Al Goldstein, he remembered how Mickey Zafferano had been instrumental in helping distribute ‘Debbie Does Dallas’. We’ve been waiting eight months for $10,000 that a major theater chain owes us. When they make a deal, they stick with it, and they pay you upfront. In a newspaper interview from 1975, David Buckley asserted, “We’re very pro-mafia around here.” Jim Buckley spelled out some of the reasons for their preference: “Mafia guys keep their word. Whereas many adult film producers of the era were quick to distance themselves from any links to organized crime, the Buckleys were quick to recognize their debt to the mob – who booked their films into theaters throughout the country. David Buckley had formed a film distribution and production company in 1974 with his two brothers, Jim (co-founder of Screw magazine with Al Goldstein) and Frederick, who had distributed ‘ Flesh Gordon‘ (1974) and the Italian sex-arthouse hit, ‘ Bambina‘ (1974). The film was produced, directed and written by David Buckley (using the nom-de-porn Jim Clark), under his company Schoolday Productions, Inc. The fictional name ‘Texas Cowgirls’ was a take on the real-life Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders who were very popular at the time. The plot of ‘ Debbie does Dallas‘ focuses on a team of cheerleaders attempting to earn enough money to send title character Debbie to try out for the famous ‘Texas Cowgirls’ squad in Dallas. Please use the interactive slider below to see the locations in 1978 and in 2016. Of course The Rialto Report’s April Hall was on hand to re-enact some of the scenes. This summer The Rialto Report re-visited two of the main locations in Brooklyn the Pratt Institute where the library scenes were shot, and Brooklyn College where the sports field scenes took place. When it was first released in late 1978, it had a hugely successful theatrical run before going on to sell 50,000 copies on videotape and becoming the most successful video release of a porn film at the time. One of the best known of the so-called ‘ Golden Age of Porn‘ films ‘ Debbie Does Dallas‘ was made in New York nearly 40 years ago.
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