Take It Out in Trade

• Nona Carver - Sleazy Maisie Rumpledinck • Duke Moore - Frank Riley • Michael Donovan O'Donnell - Mac McGregor • Donna Stanley - Shirley Riley • Ed Wood - Alecia, a transvestite • Linda Colpin • Monica Gayle Apart from The Amazing Criswell (who appeared in Orgy of the Dead), Duke Moore is the only one of Wood's stable of actors from his 1950s films to appear in one of his sexploitation films. Nona Carver was a girlfriend of Wood regular Kenne Duncan. ==Unavailability==

Take It Out in Trade was commonly believed to be a lost film, but a full 80-minute print was publicly exhibited at Anthology Film Archives in New York City in September 2014. In Nightmare of Ecstasy, his 1992 biography of Ed Wood, Rudolph Grey claimed to have discovered a rare copy during his research. He reported that the film has "psychedelic touches," with red being dominant in the film's visual scheme. The website of Something Weird Video also claims that it is not a lost film. In the 1990s, three reels of silent outtake footage was discovered in the projection booth of a Santa Monica movie theatre containing bloopers, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, and alternative takes. The footage was released on VHS in 1995 by Something Weird Video as Take It Out in Trade: The Outtakes, and later made available on DVD and via download. In October 2017, Alamo Drafthouse exhibited the film to a "surprise" audience who had not been told about the film or its subject ahead of time. ==Home release==

On 31 July 2018, it was announced that Take It Out in Trade will be released on Blu-ray via the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). It will contain the new 2K transfer, as well as special features, including commentary by filmmaker Frank Henenlotter, Ed Wood's biographer Rudolph Grey, and AGFA's Joseph A. Ziemba, 70 minutes of outtakes, liner notes by Grey, a bonus film The Love Feast (also in new 2K transfer), and reversible cover art. The set was released on 13 November 2018. ==See also==