The Mini-Skirt Mob
The Mini-Skirt Mob | |
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Directed by | Maury Dexter |
Written by | James Gordon White |
Produced by | Maury Dexter |
Starring | Diane McBain Jeremy Slate Sherry Jackson Patty McCormack |
Cinematography | Archie R. Dalzell |
Edited by | Sidney Levin |
Music by | Les Baxter Val Johns |
Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,500,000 (US/ Canada)[1] |
The Mini-Skirt Mob is a 1968 outlaw biker film about an all-female motorcycle gang. The film was directed by Maury Dexter, and stars Diane McBain, Jeremy Slate, Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack, Harry Dean Stanton and .
Plot[]
Jilted by boyfriend Jeff Logan, Shayne (the leader of an all-female motorcycle gang) decides to torment Jeff and his new bride, Connie.
The harassment backfires when Shayne's sister Edie is accidentally killed by a Molotov cocktail and when Shayne herself ends up hanging by her fingernails off a cliff.
Cast[]
- Diane McBain as Shayne
- Jeremy Slate as Lon
- Sherry Jackson as Connie
- Patty McCormack as Edie
- Ross Hagen as Jeff
- Harry Dean Stanton as Spook
Reception[]
Maury Dexter says the film was the most successful of all the ones he made at AIP.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, January 8, 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
- ^ Dexter, Maury (2012). Highway to Hollywood (PDF). p. 132.
Further reading[]
- Heldman, Caroline; Frankel, Laura Lazarus; Holmes, Jennifer (April–June 2016). ""Hot, black leather, whip" The (de)evolution of female protagonists in action cinema, 1960–2014". Sexualization, Media, and Society. 2 (2): 237462381562778. doi:10.1177/2374623815627789. Pdf.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1968 films
- English-language films
- American films
- 1960s action films
- 1960s exploitation films
- Outlaw biker films
- Films directed by Maury Dexter
- Films scored by Les Baxter
- American International Pictures films
- Action film stubs