MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Wanted: Babysitter (1975)

Ann (Sydne Rome, the daughter of an Akron, Ohio plastics manufacturer who went to Europe and became a star in movies like Some Girls Do and Sex With a Smile; she also dated David Bowie for a year, became the face of aerobics in Europe by the 80s and recorded several songs) is an actress having an affair with a wealthy food mogul (Carl Mohner) . He gets rid of her, she stumbles into the street and gets hit by a car.* When she gets back to acting, well, she can’t do nude scenes any more — a fact that enrages actor Stuart Chase (Robert Vaughn) — because the accident so ruined her breasts that she won’t show them.

She and her roommate Michelle (Maria Schneider, yes, the star of Last Tango In Paris) are out of money, so Ann dresses like Michelle to get a job babysitting the son of that very same wealthy food mogul. Then, she, Chase and Vic (Vic Morrow), an ex-stuntman unleash the next part of their plan, where a woman named Lotte (Nadja Tiller) hires Michelle to watch the boy — Boots (John Whittington) — while getting the money. The kid thinks that the brutal Ann is watching him, so he’ll stay quiet, and Michelle has no idea what’s happening.

The plan is, well, kind of dumb but it gets worse when Morrow can’t be controlled and he kills everyone he can while screaming every single line. The ending is confusing, but hey, if you like Rome, Schneider and Morrow, there’s a bit of fun to be had here.

Also known as Scar Tissue and The Raw Edge, this was the last movie that René Clément (The Deadly Trap) would direct. He wrote it with Nicola Badalucco (The Damned), Mark Peploe (The Last Emperor) and Luciano Vincenzoni (For A Few Dollars More).

Don’t have the box set? You can watch this on Tubi.

*Oddly enough, Rome was disfigured in a car crash in 2009 that paralyzed the right side of her face.

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