Vice Squad (1982)

Princess (Season Hubley, who was Nikki in Hardcore) is walking the streets to make money for her daughter Lisa losing her job. Sunset Boulevard is dangerous, as you know if you’ve watched the same movies that I have, but never more dangerous when pimp Ramrod (Wings Hauser) is running things.

LAPD vice squad sergeant Tom Walsh (Gary Swanson) brings Princess down to the morgue to look at the body of her dead friend Ginger (Nina Blackwood, former MTV VJ) and tell her that she’ll be busted for cocaine and lose her daughter if she doesn’t help. Yeah, every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints.

Even when she helps the cops catch Ramrod, he easily escapes, starting a reign of terror on the Sunset Strip looking for Princess, promising that she will be killed. He even castrates her former pimp, Sugar Pimp Dorsey (Fred “Rerun” Berry losing his dick? No!), and beating men and women alike into the great beyond all as he gets closer and closer. At the same time, Princess is turning tricks in fancy mansions, getting into coffins with old men who like to pretend that they are dead. That’s because she knows that the vice squad will never be able to change what happens on the streets.

I would not deserve this site and you reading it if I didn’t mention that one of the working girls is Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith.

Gary Sherman should get more credit than he does. I’ve never seen a boring movie from him. Wings Hauser is also an absolute maniac beyond all other lunatics in this and even sang “Neon Slime,” the song that plays at the end.

Supposedly, Martin Scorsese got in a fight with Dawn Steele over this movie, saying that it deserved to be the best movie of the year.

The opening says, “The motion picture you are about to see has been produced with the cooperation of law enforcement authorities. Though a work of fiction, it is a composite of events that have actually taken place on the streets of Hollywood.” That’s true. Producers Brian Frankish and James Robert Dyer approached Sandy Howard about making a realit documentary about prostitution with interviews from pimps, sex workers and the LAPD Vice Squad. The project eventually became a movie with Howard, Kenneth Peter and Robert Vincent O’Neil working on the story.

You can watch this on Tubi.

Here’s a drink.

Neon Slime

  • 1.5 oz. Midori
  • .5 oz. Southern Comfort
  • .5 oz. sweet and sour mix (or .25 oz. lemon juice and .25 oz. simple syrup)
  • .25 oz. egg whites
  • 1 oz. lemon lime soda
  1. Put all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake it up.
  2. Let it sit for a moment, then shake it again. Pour over ice and enjoy.