''Hot Summer in the City'' is a 1976 American

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about a white virgin who is abducted by a group of black militants. The film's director is credited as "The Hare" on screen; for years,

Gail Palmer Gail Palmer (also Gail Palmer-Slater) is an American former producer and director of pornographic movies in the U.S. during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Among her well-known movies are ''Hot Summer in the City'' (1976) starring Lisa Baker ...

publicly claimed to be the pseudonymous director, but in an unrelated trial against her former producing partner and companion

Harry Mohney Harry Mohney (born May 30, 1943) is the founder of Déjà Vu, a U.S. company which (as of 2006) owns about 132 strip clubs and numerous other adult businesses in 41 U.S. states, as well as multiple clubs abroad. For a period of time, he was the ...

, she declared under oath she had not directed any films produced by Mohney which she received director credit for. "The Hare" is thus believed to be Harry Mohney himself, based on the similarities to his name. It is a co-production of Imperial Films with Mohney's Hare Films. The film is classified as a classical ''roughie'' with its depiction of sexual violence on females. It also employs many of the popular

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themes of the period. Throughout the film the radio plays songs by Robert Knight,

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, and

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, while " Summer in the City" by

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is used as the theme song.

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