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    The first trailer is for The Pink Angels.  It looks like your typical biker movie from the 60s and 70s.  That is until you figure out that it is a gang of burly biker types that also happen to be gay!  Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) plays a gay biker; this is a movie I have to see.  The other trailer is for another biker flick called The Wild Riders.  It really doesn’t look all that interesting.  The only recognizable face is Alex Rocco, who seems to have done a tone of drive-in movies in the 70s.  Hell he showed up in Stanley (killer snake movie!).   

Superchick (1973) 

    So our first feature is Superchick from 1973. This movie is most known for it’s star, Joyce Jillson, who is naked many times in the movie.  As a child of the 80s I am most familiar with Joyce Jillson as the astrologer for Nancy Regan.  You see after not really having a lot of success as an actress she started working for the studios as an astrologer.  She let them know the right days to start shooting movies as well as when to release them.  The only reason that I mention this, other than to show that I’m an enormous movie nerd is to say I hope she was a better astrologer then she was an actress.  The entire movie revolves around her, so she has to carry it.  But she just isn’t that good of an actress.  I will also admit that seeing John Carradine in this movie mad me very sad.  He did a lot of terrible movies towards the end of his career, but this was just below him.  The movie tries to be this funny comedy about a liberated woman with a different man in every city (she is a stewardess).  I found the movie to be boring and pointless.  None of the jokes were funny and the situations were dumb as hell.       

    I have to mention one other thing.  I’m not a DVD nerd and I don’t obsess over aspect ratios and re-mastering.  So when I say that the audio on this DVD is crap I mean it.  For a good 20-30 minutes there is a hissing sound that is so loud it threatens to make the dialogue inaudible.  I’m certain that this isn’t a manufacturing issue on the DVD, but an issue with the source material.  I’ve seen enough budget releases from Brentwood and Millcreek to know what this sound is and was really disappointed to find this issue on this disc.   

Rating - 1/2*

    Intermission time.  Go get your popcorn refilled and use the men’s room if you have to.  I’m going to stick around and watch the trailers, which are for a pair of Sonny Chiba movies.  The first is a movie called the Bodyguard.  Sonny Chiba does battle with drug dealers in an effort to stop the flow of narcotics.  I’ve not actually seen this movie, but it seems that there is quite a bit of ass kicking goodness to be had here.  The other trailer is for Sister Street Fighter.  I actually own the Street Fighter set and have seen this movie.  I dig it, but then I’ve always been partial to women you can kick butt!   

Hustler Squad (1976) 

    Be quite now the next movie is starting.  Hustler Squad is an inspirational little flick that tells the story of a desperate mission to kill the leaders of the Japanese army and navy during WWII.  All of the targets are going to be on an island together enjoying the company of some ladies.  Since there are too many troops to take the island US intelligence decides to create a crack force of killer whores under the command of Major Stony Stonewall.  They will infiltrated the island and when the Japs least expect it kill them and make their escape.  It is sort of like a Dirty Dozen rip off with boobs!   

    While this movie isn’t as sleazy as it sounds I still really enjoyed it.  You see some nudity, a great training montage, and the ladies get to rip into the enemy with machine guns.  Hell a couple of heads even get chopped off (surprisingly well done effect).  I don’t know if it is because Superchick was so bad or if this movie is so good, but I really enjoyed this one.  To me this is a perfect example of the sort of goofy movies that typified the drive-in and Grindhouse market.  Plus the movie was shot in the Philippines and has Vic Diaz in it.  It doesn’t get better than that. 

    Again this one is a mixed bag.  I didn’t find Superchick funny or entertaining at all, but Hustler Squad was a blast.  I would have to say that checking out Hustler Squad by itself might be your best bet. 

Rating - ***