Is There Sex After Death? is a 1971 mockumentary and mondo film.
Plot
Driving through New York City in his Sexmobile, Dr. Harrison Rogers of the Bureau of Sexological Investigation searches out luminary figures in the world of sex. According to the movie, the answer to the title question is: "No, only affection".
Cast
Alan Abel as Dr. Rogers
Buck Henry as Dr. Louise Manos
Marshall Efron as Vince Domino
Holly Woodlawn as herself
Robert Downey Sr. as himself
Jim Moran as Dr. Elevenike
James Randi as Seance Medium
Earle Doud as Merkin
Larry Wolf as Sexbowl Announcer/Seance Spirit
Mink Stole as Dominatrix
James Dixon as Richard Nixon
Controversy
On March 12, 1980, the ON TV pay channel aired the film on WXON (channel 20, now WMYD) in Detroit. It was scheduled to air again ten days later, but it did not. WXON station manager Aben Johnson, who was alerted to the film's content (including sex and nudity) by a station employee during its original airing, decided against showing it again, substituting Saturday Night Fever instead. ON TV's policy at the time forbade showing any films with an X rating, for adults only; Is There Sex After Death? was apparently not given a rating by the Motion Picture Association of America at all until 1975, when it was granted an 'R' certificate, making the movie seemingly within ON's standards. Still, WXON never showed the film again on its ON TV affiliate, which closed in 1983.