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A Fool's World

A Fool's World

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A Fool's World

"We Don't Make the Love Scenes in Mondo Balordo...We Just Filmed What Nature Already Started!"

1964

1h 33m

3.4(8 votes)

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Documentary showing perverse and aberrant behavior from around the globe, including such things as sex slavery, dwarf love, Asian brothels and lesbians.

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Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

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Directed by: Roberto Bianchi Montero
Albert T. Viola

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