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The Mating Urge

8.019581h 18mMovie

An exploitation pot-boiler, posing as an anthropology art-film, and supposedly filmed by seventeen different cameraman in Africa, Malaya, India, Ceylon, Bali, New Guinea and New Hebrides.

DirectorRay Phoenix
WriterRichard F. Morean
ProducersRichard F. Morean·Howard C. Brown

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Cast · Directed by Ray Phoenix

AGArt Gilmore
Art Gilmore
Narrator

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The Mating Urge hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around September 19, 1958. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.