Daredevil — there’s the title! — Paul Tunney (George Montgomery) gets blamed for another stunt driver’s death and finds himself making a living by running drugs and dealing with some kind of bad mojo put on him by that driver’s sister, Carol (Gay Perkins).  Oh yeah — he’s also making sweet love to his one-armed mechanic Huck’s (Bill Kelly) wife Julie (Terry Moore) because, look, Paul’s a jerk. He deserves everything that happened to him.

Montgomery went from a stuntman at Republic to leading man status at 20th Centiry Fox, taking over roles meant for Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda during the war before he was drafted into working for the U.S. Army Air Forces First Motion Picture Unit, appearing in documentaries and training films. As his leading man status waned, he appeared in movies like Hallucination Generation, Satan’s Harvest (which he directed) and Django the Condemned.

Moore was married five times but has claimed that she was with Howard Hughes from 1949 to 1976. She’s been acting since 1940 — and has two movies coming soon, according to IMDB — and starred in Mighty Joe Young, as well as appearing in Hellhole, Beverly Hills Brats and many more films. She was even on the cover of Playboy in August 1984 at the age of 55.

By 1972, however, they were both in movies like The Daredevil.

Director Robert W. Stringer was usually a composer for movies, and this is his only directing credit. Writer Robert Walsh also scripted Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws. They made a movie that combines the rednecksploitation that drive-ins were looking for with the downer ending that was of the time. It’s not great, but it’s perfect for a second drive-in feature; a make-out and barely watch the movie movie, if you will.

You can watch this on the Cave of Forgotten Films.