I Need (or I Need a Man) is a 1967 American drama film concerned with a young girl who becomes a schizophrenic nymphomaniac after a childhood rape. It was the first movie from Beverly Sebastian and Ferd Sebastian, who self financed it for $7,000 and filmed it around Houston. The Sebastians distributed the film themselves and managed to recoup their money, launching their careers.
Cast Ceci Weathers as Ceci Tom Hunter as Alex Jay Froman as Murry Sylvia Froman as Mother
Prior to starring in I Need, Tom Hunter guest starred on the 1960s, U.S television series Flipper and Hawk, then Gunsmoke, after. Working mostly in European-made films, Hunter starred in The Vampire Happening (1971), The Human Factor (1975), and The Cassandra Crossing (1976).
Production The credited writer "Ann Cawthorne" was a pseudonym for Beverly Sebastian.
Ferd Sebastian later said "Like in most of our films we did all the work. But in that one, I mean all [films we do], there was only the two of us and the cast which was about 4 people."
Release Per the IMDb.com, the film was released in the U.S on December 28, 1967, the Netherlands on August 28, 1969, and France in August 1970.
Reception Ferd Sebastian said ". . . it is the only picture we ever made in black and white and that it was too artsy. . . . It has a little sex and it has a little of this but it's very artsy. It looks like a Fellini film or something."
The Sebastians said the film was not making money in cinemas until a distributor bought the film, and created a poster using a still from the movie where a woman looks like she is having sex, then added the log line "I need a man." This was a successful technique although the Sebastians recognised it misrepresented the film.
A 1993 article said the film had made several hundred thousand dollars.
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