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The film was released in 1968, falling into the 1964–1977 era where copyright renewal was automatic under the 1992 Amendment. However, for a film of this era to be protected, it must have been published with a valid US copyright notice or registered with the Copyright Office. A search of the U.S. Copyright Office records and secondary databases (including David Pierce's documentation) does not reveal a contemporary registration for this title. While automatic renewal protects works from this era, it cannot save a work that was published without proper notice and never registered. This film was a low-budget 'sexploitation' comedy directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Many films in this genre and from this specific distributor (International Film Artists) were released without copyright notices or with defective ones. Given the absence of a registration record and the lack of active commercial enforcement or high-quality modern restoration by a major rightsholder, the status is uncertain but leans toward public domain. However, without a physical examination of the original 35mm prints to confirm the absence of a notice, we cannot definitively declare it public domain. The film is classified as an orphan work because the original production and distribution entities are long-defunct, and the film has effectively disappeared from the commercial marketplace, existing primarily through low-quality transfers on the Internet Archive and bootleg DVDs. Note: generated without live web grounding (the grounded research engine was unavailable). Verify the cited sources independently before relying on this determination.