Your browser does not support the video tag. To mark his passing, we are premiering our short film, and reprising the 2015 podcast we made on Alfred Sole and the Ballad of Deep Sleep. And I will keep doing all I can for the story of Alfred Sole and Deep Sleep to reach as many people as possible. I’m grateful that so much of his creative output is available for audiences to appreciate. I’m so saddened by the loss of someone I was fortunate enough to call my friend these past 15 years. Then, like everyone else, I learned the news of Alfred’s death this past week. In the end though, Alfred was just so excited about the project. I reassured him that there was no way that he could. That in recent months he’d found himself searching for words much more than he used to. He was concerned that his memory wasn’t as good as it used to be. Alfred worried about the fact that we all wanted to make him the heart of the story. We were in pre-production and there were lots of details to work through. Over the past months, as a producer on the documentary project, I spoke with Alfred often. And that coverage led to a major documentary company deal to produce the story. Our coverage of Deep Sleep was picked up by the Daily Beast. I was fascinated by the tale, I decided to make a short film about it – something that tickled Alfred to no end.
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He then went on to a prolific career in Hollywood as a production designer, working on popular TV shows like Veronica Mars, Castle and MacGuyver.Īlfred generously shared the story of Deep Sleep with me. After Deep Sleep he directed a few horror films, including the cult favorite Alice, Sweet Alice from 1976 which featured a young Brooke Shields. Despite the controversy, she had only fond memories of him. I asked if she’d kept in touch with Alfred and she said no – but that if I found him to please send her best wishes.
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She had been the female star of Deep Sleep and shared her memories of making the movie and the prosecution that followed. So I called adult performer Kim Pope, an early sexploitation actress who’d made the transition to hardcore films. What wasn’t included was any hint of how the case ended. I eventually got back about a hundred pages of field reports and interviews detailing a robust investigation. Even the mayor’s wife was in it, though like many of Alfred’s family and friends, she performed in a non-sex role.īut then the tone of the article took a turn: it said Alfred and the film’s lead performers were now under investigation by the FBI and facing significant jail time.Įager to learn more, I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the FBI files. With money from members of the local community, he enlisted his family, friends and some local actors to shoot the picture. He’d never seen one before but he desperately wanted to make a movie and porn was the only type he could get backing for. A young guy in a small New Jersey suburb with a love of cinema had made an adult film. The article caught my eye because the Times almost never covered porn movies and because the story started out pretty folksy.
I came across a 1973 article about a controversial adult film called Deep Sleep. I first became aware of Alfred about 15 years ago when I was looking through the New York Times archives. The film director and production designer Alfred Sole passed away this past Tuesday at the age of 78.
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