The Swinging Cheerleaders

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The Swinging Cheerleaders

#1 Post by domino harvey » Fri Apr 08, 2016 11:14 am

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THEY GAVE THEIR ALL FOR THE TEAM!

Jack Hill spent the seventies specialising in tough female characters. He made movies about girl gangs (Switchblade Sisters) and women in prison (The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage), turned Pam Grier a star with Coffy and Foxy Brown, and contributed to the Cheerleaders line of drive-in favourites with The Swinging Cheerleaders.

Kate, an undergraduate at Mesa University, goes undercover as a cheerleader for her college newspaper in order to expose ‘female exploitation in contemporary society’. But instead of oppression she finds love, friendship and a bigger fish to fry: corruption in the football team, headed up by the coach and his pals.

A favourite of Quentin Tarantino, who screened it at the very first Tarantino Film Fest, The Swinging Cheerleaders features a cast of cult favourites including Colleen Camp (Wayne’s World, Game of Death), Rainbeaux Smith (Caged Heat, The Incredible Melting Man) and future Playmate of the Month Rosanne Katon.

CONTENTS
  • Brand new 2K restoration from original film materials
  • High Definition (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD Presentations
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
  • Audio commentary by writer-director Jack Hill, recorded exclusively for this release
  • Brand new interview with Jack Hill
  • Archive interview with cinematographer Alfred Taylor
  • Archive interview with Hill and Johnny Legend
  • Q&A with Hill, and actors Colleen Camp and Rosanne Katon recorded at the New Beverly Cinema in 2012
  • TV spots
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

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Re: The Swinging Cheerleaders

#2 Post by souvenir » Tue Dec 13, 2016 1:42 am

This is kind of an orphan of a thread but I rather liked the film. It takes (creates?) a very exploitation-friendly subgenre and immediately subverts expectations by having the activist character be the biggest creep and hypocrite while the jock becomes the more redeemable one. It's also very well made by Jack Hill. Such a seemingly disposable template lowers expectations as a rule but this is as fun as anything I saw from Arrow this year, with quite a few extras too.

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Re: The Swinging Cheerleaders

#3 Post by Lowry_Sam » Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:25 pm

souvenir wrote: subverts expectations by having the activist character be the biggest creep and hypocrite while the jock becomes the more redeemable one.
It may be the expectations today, but from the 50s to early 70s that was the standard trope.

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Re: The Swinging Cheerleaders

#4 Post by What A Disgrace » Wed Dec 14, 2016 11:42 am

"Well made by Jack Hill" is what convinced me to order this disc as part of the recent sale.

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