Secret Key Motion Pictures has released Skin in the Fifties, a two-disc compilation of uncensored, authentic exploitation fare from the 1950s. Featuring a "restored" version of The Flesh Merchant, a 1956 potboiler about a good girl gone wrong, Skin in the Fifties also features some authentic 1950s and 1960s arcade loops, burlesque films and "stags" that might interest the connoisseur of sewer films.

The Flesh Merchant tells the seedy tale of Nancy (Joy Reynolds), a fresh-faced kid straight off Mainstreet, U.S.A., who arrives in La La Land to visit her glamorous sister Paula. What Nancy doesn't know is that Paula is really a good-time girl, a prostitute who's sick of her life, and who desperately wants Nancy to avoid the same pitfall. But ...Read the entire review