The Hellcats bury Big Daddy, who was killed by their mob contact, Mr. Adrian (Robert F. Slatzer, who directed this as well as Bigfoot), when he learned that the crook was also a snitch for Detective Dave Chapman. All of these relationships are symbolized at the start of the film — the biker gang is burying their boss while the cops and the crooks watch from a distance.

Adrian decides to kill off Chapman when he’s on a date with his fiancée Linda (Dee Duffy, who was a Slaygirl and Miss June in the Matt Helm movies The Ambushers and Murderer’s Row). Dave’s brother, Monte (Ross Hagen, who was also in The Sidehackers), returns from the war to learn what happened. He and Linda decide to act like a biker couple and get revenge.

He does so by getting drawn and quartered longer than the leader of the gang, Snake (Sonny West, a member of Elvis’ Memphis Mafia). This earns him the right to have sex with Sheila (one-and-done actress Sharyn Kinzie) and brings our protagonists into the gang’s scam to bring back drugs from Mexico.

Tom Hanson, who directed Zodiac Killer, shows up here as Mongoose. Gus Trikonis, who made Nashville Woman, The Evil, She’s Dressed to Kill, and more, is Scorpio. Tony Lorea, who plays Six-Pack and also acted in Supercock, went on to be the assistant director of Sweet Sixteen, The Glove and Ladies Night. Was this entire gang made up of exploitation movie directors? Where’s Bud Cardos?

Also known as The Campus Corpse, Here Come the Delts and The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse, this was directed by Douglas Curtis (The Sleeping Car) and written by David Ketchum (Agent 13 from Get Smart) and Bruce Shelly.

Craig Lewis (Jeff East) pledges a fraternity along with Barney (Charles Martin Smith), a super-smart kid. They’re asked to run down a mountain only in jockstraps to prove how bad they want to join. Craig is a runner, so he’s fine, but when the other guy gets hurt, Craig runs off to get help. When he returns, the other man is dead and instead of calling the police, the frat decides to hide the body.

This has the weirdest plan: After hiding the body for a week, Rod (Brad David) and Phil (Jim Boelsen) force Craig to go to Barney’s classes. Then, they take the corpse to a ski lodge and make it look like he died going down the hill. Does it work? Hmm…

This looks like a TV movie and wildly vacillates between goofy comedy and thriller. It makes no sense and is kind of a mess. I loved it.

You can watch this on YouTube.

Based on The Face of Night by Bernard Brunner, this is the last film for director Henry Hathaway, who directed True Grit, The Sons of Katie Elder and Call Northside 777. It’s a blaxploutation film that was distributed by American-International Pictures; amazingly, Hathaway had turned down Rooster Cogburn.

Re-released as Super Dude, this is all about heroic black cop Ken Ramsey (William Elliott) and Julie (Marki Bey), who has been addicted to heroin and forced to do sex work. She used to be the girl he loved back in high school; now he wants to save her from Richards (Michael Lerner).

This is competently made and the fight scenes look good. That’s not why one usually watches blaxploiutation. Still, an interesting footnote in a great career.

You can watch this on YouTube.

After pretty much creating the nurse cycle for Corman with The Student Nurses and then directing The Velvet Vampire, Stephanie Rothman and her husband Charles Swartz left New World for Larry Woolner’s new Dimension Films. It was still exploitation, and she didn’t have much creative control, but it was more money and the opportunity to own some of the movies that she was making.

Rothman directed Terminal Island and The Working Girls, wrote the script for Beyond Atlantis, offered some creative ideas to Sweet Sugar and re-edited The Sin of Adam and Eve. After stops and starts, as well as writing Starhops and taking her name off it when the film didn’t reflect what she wrote, she eventually left movies.

We’re all the worse for this, as her films are progressive in 2024 and had to be incendiary in the 1970s.

This starts in a rental car office, where we meet Chris (Aimée Eccles, Ulzana’s Raid, Paradise Alley) and Judy (Jayne Kennedy!). Well, Judy isn’t in this, but Jayne Kennedy is always a welcome actress in any film. Chris has issues with her boyfriend, Sandor (Solomon Sturges, son of Preston, who is also in The Working Girls), who pretty much berates her at any opportunity and is only concerned with writing acerbic bumper stickers. He flips out that he doesn’t have a working car, so she has to hurry home and fix it — the women in this movie don’t just have agency, they’re all more capable than the men — and that’s when she rides in the same taxi as Dennis (Jeff Pomerantz). This leads to Dennis trying to get them to stop fighting, staying overnight, having his girlfriend Jan (Victoria Vetri, Playboy Playmate of the Month for September 1967 and 1968 Playmate of the Year; she’s also in Rosemary’s Baby, playing Terry Gionoffrio, and in Invasion of the Bee Girls) break up with him and sleeping with Chris.

Before you know it, Dennis is introducing Jan to the couple, and all four are in an intertwined relationship. That soon becomes five when the women — who are just as in charge of their sexuality as the men — fall for a lifeguard named Phil Kirby (Zack Taylor, The Young Nurses). Yet he feels a little lonely and starts looking for someone else. At this point, I was marveling at how beautiful everyone in this movie is. And that’s when Phil’s partner, Elaine (Claudia Jennings, there’s a reason to watch this!), is introduced. Sure, she’s a lawyer representing his ex-wife in the divorce, but she wants him.

Everyone decides to get married, but Jan doesn’t want commitment, even if they have the opportunity to be with different people within their poly group. But then people start showing up trying to be part of the group, and some go wild and try to firebomb their house. Dennis even loses his job. Elaine decides to figure out how to make group marriage legal, which leads all five to get married. And wow, I lied before, because Judy ended up with Dennis, so now there are six. I mean, seven! Chris is pregnant.

How progressive is the California of Stephanie Rothman? Not only can these people all create their own marriage, but their gay neighbors Randy (John McMurtry) and Rodney (Bill Striglos) are also able to be husband and husband, 22 years before the first legal same sex marriage in America.

Other than the John Sebastian song “Darling Companion” and the stereotypical mincing gay couple, there’s a lot to celebrate here. It’s erotic, sure, but never feels filthy or even exploitative. This is at once a humorous but thoughtful take on the good and bad of being married to six people. As always, Rothman’s work is nearly current today, and many of her movies were released before I was born.

This was re-released by 21st Century as a double feature with The Muthers.

The Church of Mortavia needs cash, so Father Guru does what he can, which means getting dead bodies for medical students to experiment on. This may mean stabbing churchgoers in the eyeball or working with vampires and hunchbacks. And while this is supposedly set in the Middle Ages, it was actually shot at New York City’s St. Peter’s Church, which means you may just hear the sounds of modern traffic.

Shot for $11,000, this is yet another Milligan film, in which the director wrote, directed, built sets, and sewed costumes for a cast of mainly off-off-Broadway actors and Staten Island locals. How else would you populate a prison colony of Catholic sinners who were all waiting to be served sentences that are all being wiped out by an insane priest?

This was made as part of a double bill with another of Milligan’s movies, The Body Beneath. It’s around 55 minutes long and has some gore, but in no way does it have as inventive a title as Milligan’s best-named film, The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here!

Milligan is a fascinating character study, probably more so than his films, to be perfectly honest. He was considered one of the worst directors of all time until his movie Fleshpot on 42nd Street was rediscovered by Something Weird Video, and his theatrical efforts were unearthed. In some strange universe, his work as a queer filmmaker found a better audience than maniacs like me who watched his movies like The Ghastly Ones.

Frantic Friar

• 1.5 oz. Frangelico
• .75 oz. lemon juice
• .75 oz. lime juice
• Maraschino cherry

1. Pour Frangelico and juices into a shaker with ice.
2. Scream at it like you’re in an Andy Milligan movie while shaking, then pour it into a glass and top with a cherry.

Directed by Rene Martinez Jr. (Road of Death, The Sexiest Story Ever Told, Supersoul Brother) and written by Gardenia Martinez, this stars Loye Hawkins as cool cat Al Connors, a Mimai detective from Harlem who has been hired by the CIA to protect Mrs. Ashanti (Patricia Fulton), the wife of a leader they’re doing business with. Spies hired by Big Daddy (Wayne Crawford, who would go on to produce Valley Girl and direct Barracuda). As you can imagine, Al goes from pretending to be her husband to bedding her.

But forget all that. Halfway through the movie, Al gets a new job, protecting Harry De Bauld’s (Steve Gallon, also known as Wildman Steve; a Miami-based DJ who would star in Supersoul Brother and release albums with titles like Eatin’ Ain’t Cheatin!!!) daughter Wanda (Cathy Davis), who he also has sex with, to the cobstrernation of his regular white girl, Sue (Wanda Starr).

Then, he challenges Big Daddy to a wrestling match to the death and walks away the winner.

Nearly every line is a blooper, the action is bad, and yet this has a heart that I really enjoyed. If you’d like to see a worse Dolemite, this movie is here for you.

You can watch this on Tubi with and without riffing.

Also known as The New Adventures of Snow White, this sex farce is part of Rolf Thiele’s downward career trajectory, who had once been a mainstream director but increasingly found himself making lower-budget sex comedies. It’s all about Snow White (Marie Liljedahl, who was Eugenie in Eugenie…The Story of Her Journey into Perversion), Cinderella (Eva Rueber-Staier, who was General Gogol’s assistant Rublevitch in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy) and Sleeping Beauty having a series of adult adventures.

There’s also a dude in a bear suit.

As for the evil queen, she’s played by Ingrid van Bergen, who famously shot her lover dead in 1977 and was released five years later to continue being a star. She was also in the Edgar Wallace adaptation The Avenger and The Vampire Happening.

A section 3 video nasty, this is a pretty tame film, aside from the scene where one of Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters literally slices off her heel to fit it into the glass slipper. Wow. That even took me a second to get over. Well done, silly sex comedy from 1969.

The only movie directed by John Leone (he also wrote the Richard Fleischer movie Tough Enough), this is also known as The Goodbye Run and The Last of the Cowboys. But if you’re expecting Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed from the title, you won’t get it. This is filmed in the dark, features moments of genuine sadness, and is a low-budget film compared to the Hollywood blockbusters of Hal Needham.

Trucking isn’t as fun as those movies in this. Elegant John Howard (Henry Fonda) is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital when his truck is repossessed. So he escapes from the hospital and plans one last perfect run, stealing back his truck and picking up hitchhiker Beebo (Robert Englund). At the same time, across the country, Madame Penelope (Eileen Brennan) has 48 hours to close down her house of ill repute.

Unable to find a load, due to his truck being listed as stolen, John takes on a job transporting Penelope and her girls — Ginny (Susan Sarandon), Alice (Mews Small), Lula (Melanie Mayron), Glinda (Leigh French, the mother of the kid who are a razor blade apple in Halloween II), Mary Agnes (Valerie Curtin) and Celeste (Daina House, January 1976 Playboy Playmate of the Month and now ministry leader at the Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California) to a new place to do business.

The only problem? Police officer Harley Davidson (Dub Taylor) wants to arrest them all and get the attention for it.

Austin Pendleton and John Byner (Bizarre!) also appear.

After this played at the Cannes Film Festival, nobody picked it up. It was a depressing movie — Ford was dying of cancer and was fighting real-life illnesses throughout — and the only taker was Dimension Pictures, which re-edited it into an upbeat story, giving it the title The Great Smokey Roadblock.

You can watch this on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meNr8PEdxps&msockid=eb7701def00211f0beccc0b7870aa2bf

Sam Kellog (Sam’s favorite actor ever, John Saxon) was a cop, but now he’s a bounty hunter. Working for Bill Schwartz (Keenan Wynn, Laserblast, The Devil’s Rain!), a bail bondsman, he brings in lowlifes for low money. His biggest frustration is that his ex-wife is going to cut off visits with his daughter over missed alimony. Then he gets the chance to earn $20,000 from his old boss, Lt. Kruger.

The mark? Victor Hale (Rosey Grier, former football player, needlepoint expert and the man who subdued Sirhan Sirhan), an ex-con who is suspected of the murder of his former prison guards. While he was in the joint, they used a five-pound, leather and steel riot glove to brutalize him. Now, someone — probably him — is using it for revenge.

The movie switches between Kellog and Hale. Kellog’s life is a mess, while Hale is beloved by the people who live in the Section 8 housing alongside him. He’s a jazz musician and has found his place in life, even if he is killing all those old guards.

Finally, our protagonists battle one another, with Hale even giving Kellog the glove to use. Their fight ends in a draw, and they both collapse. Hale then rises and helps the bounty hunter to his feet, only to be shot by Kruger, who says that the bounty was for bringing in the man dead, not alive. Hale’s neighbors surround the evil cop and murder him.

The result? Kellog gets the bounty anyway and spends the day with his daughter.

This movie also features Joanna Cassidy (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), Joan Blondell (The Phynx, The Blue Veil), Jack Carter (Alligator), Aldo Ray (Evils of the Night) and Michael Pataki (who is in probably more movies than anyone else we love other than Joh Saxon — witness Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Graduation Day, Dead and Buried, Pink Angels, The Baby, Airport ’77 and many more).

It’s not a great movie, but it does have some fantastic posters. And sometimes, that’s all you need to watch it.

The Black Souls are led by Chino (an absolutely berserk Dennis Hopper), and the Glory Stompers are led by Darryl (Jody McCrea). Chino jumps him and nearly kills Darryl, then steals his girl, Chris (Chris Noel, who has a wild life story. Starting as a model in her teens, she was painted by pin-up artist Gil Elvgren; she was a New York Giants cheerleader; she was in Girl Happy with Elvis and most interestingly, she toured Vietnam eight times, was the only woman to travel through South Vietnam to remote bases in helicopters and lived to tell despite mortar and assault rifle attacks in war zones. She had her own Armed Forces Network radio show and married Green Beret captain Ty Herrington, who sadly took his own life eleven months into their union. She’s continued to help veterans ever since.).

Originally written by James Gordon White (Bigfoot, The Hellcats) as a Western, it was turned into a biker movie, which makes sense, since you just replace horses with motorcycles. Director Anthony M. Lanza adapted another White script into a film, The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant, and edited The Sadist and Wild Guitar.

Joined by ex-Black Soul Smiley (Jock Mahoney), Darryl heads off to save Chris, battling gang members like Mouth (Casey Kasem!), Clean Cut (Jim Reader) and Monk (Bing’s son Lindsey Crosby). Plus, Robert Tessier as Magoo! This also has a great soundtrack by Davie Allen and the Arrows, along with Mike Curb.

What makes this worth watching is Hopper. He’s crazy in this, yelling at everyone and saying man so many times. He talked to Tarantino about this, as it’s one of the director’s favorite movies.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: One of your performances that’s one of my favorites?it’s a wacky, kooky performance?is in The Glory Stompers. I loved you in that. You know, that is the beginning of you as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet right there.

DENNIS HOPPER: Glory Stompers is the American International Pictures movie which actually, I ended up directing. That was my first directorial job because the director had a nervous breakdown. I drove the guy to a nervous breakdown and then I took over the picture.

QUENTIN TARANTINO: You have this one line that’s just so fucking funny in it: when you’re fighting this guy, you beat him up, and then you look around and say, “Anybody else got anything else to say? Turn it on, man, just turn it on.”

DENNIS HOPPER: Well, thank you, man.