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Lovely and becoming brunette actress Sherry Buchanan talks about her acting career in various low-budget Italian horror and exploitation movies made in the 1970's and 1980's in this engrossing and enjoyable 23-minute documentary. Buchanan reveals that she was born in Biloxi, Mississippi and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Buchanan goes on to discuss her film debut in the giallo "What Have They Done to Your Daughters?" as well as notes that she also worked in Italy as a model and TV commercial actress. Buchanan in addition talks about how her head had to be shaven for the brain surgery sequence in "Dr. Butcher M.D." and how the make-up process for that gruesome set piece was long and exhausting. Moreover, Buchanan has fond memories of star Ian McCulloch as a very funny man with a great sense of humor. Her stories concerning the "Jaws" rip-off "Tentacles" are fun to hear. Ditto her candid admission that she never aspired to be a star and her observation that people were a lot more simple and generous back in the 1970's. However, the best stuff in this interview are Buchanan's comments on how the use of a body double for hardcore inserts in the lurid "Emanuelle and Joanna" had a negative impact on her career and in turn made her want to quit acting. Buchanan comes across as a real charming and personable lady in this interview -- and she's still quite the looker, too! A nice featurette.