Stanley Long

Who was Stanley Long?

Stanley A. Long was a British Exploitation cinema and sexploitation filmmaker. He was a writer, cinematographer, editor, and eventually, producer/director of low-budget exploitation movies.

Long began his career as a photographer, before producing striptease shorts or "glamour home movies", as they were sometimes known, for the 8 mm market. Beginning in the late fifties, Long’s feature film career would span the entire history of the British sex film, and as such exemplifies its differing trends and attitudes. From coy nudist films, to moralizing documentary to a more relaxed attitude to permissive material, to out and out comedies at the end of the 1970s.

He made several sex comedy movies in the 1970s, the most successful being Adventures of a Taxi Driver, Adventures of a Private Eye and Adventures of a Plumber's Mate, starring a host of talented comedy performers including, Barry Evans, Diana Dors, Irene Handl, Harry H. Corbett, Liz Fraser and Fred Emney.

Like Norman J. Warren Long also made horror films. He made the anthology movie Screamtime in 1983 and was due to film a Jo Gannon script entitled Plasmid, about albino mutants living in London’s Underground. While the film was never made, confusingly a tie-in novel of Plasmid was released.