Bible! (1974)

Interesting facts

Wakefield Poole's Bible is a 1973 American softcore pornographic anthology film written and directed by Wakefield Poole. The film presents the biblical stories of Adam and Eve, David and Bathsheba, and Samson and Delilah in the form of pornographic vignettes, and stars Bo White, Caprice Couselle, Georgina Spelvin, Nicholas Flammel, Brahm van Zetten, and Gloria Grant. It is the only straight pornographic film to be directed by Poole, who was primarily a director of gay pornography.

Production

Writer-director Wakefield Poole avidly studied the Bible as a child, and wanted to tell three stories from the Old Testament from a female perspective, as he felt that biblical narratives often cast women in a negative light. He wanted to make the film without dialogue, instead staging it to a musical composition, à la "an adult Fantasia." Poole initially wanted to cast Charles Ludlam and Lola Pashalinski respectively as David and Bathsheba, but…

Candy Darling wanted the role of Mary in the film, but Poole cast Bonnie Mathais, a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre, as Mary instead. In his 2000 book Dirty Poole: The Autobiography of a Gay Porn Pioneer, Poole expressed regret for not having given Darling the part, writing: "To this day I'm sorry I didn't use her." Poole offered Gloria Grant, a waitress at a Steak and Brew he frequented, the part of Delilah after watching her "move grac…

Bible! was filmed in the Caribbean and in the United States on 16 mm. Scenes which take place in the Garden of Eden were shot on the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. The David and Bathsheba segment was filmed in a large garage on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, Manhattan, and the final scenes featuring Mary were shot in Yuma, Arizona. Poole and producer Marvin Shulman spent over $100,000 to make the film.

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