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70's Drive-In Americana
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(Credited cast)| Linda Avery | ... | Diana | |
| Efrem Dockter | ... | Store Manager | |
| Tammy Gibbs | ... | Hitchiker | |
| Lou Joffred | ... | Doctor | |
| Nick Klar | ... | Benson (as Norman Klar) | |
| Bleu McKenzie | ... | Reb | |
| Lee Morley | ... | Used-Car Salesman | |
| Denny Nichols | ... | Truck Driver | |
| Prince Johnny Reb | ... | Rebel | |
| Misty Rowe | ... | Maggie | |
| Jim Sherwood | ... | Nemo | |
| Kathy Stutsman | ... | Hitchiker | |
| Mary Thatcher | ... | Hitchiker | |
| Ted Zeigler | ... | Church Deacon |
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OK, this movie isn't very good--but it IS the early 1970's. It has the hippies, the free love, the short-shorts, and not a bra in sight. It has the groovy, pleasantly awful early 70's folk-rock music. It is meandering, amoral, and ultimately completely pointless. It's a road movie that doesn't really go anywhere. Like many movies of the time it tried to exploit the infamy of the Manson family, but its anti-hero "Benson" is not nearly as crazy or vicious as the real-life Manson, and his "family" consists of only a few under-dressed women whom he uses to hold up horny male motorists, all to finance his evil master plan of buying a broken-down school bus. Misty Rowe stars as a teenage runaway and "Benson's" main squeeze, and she demonstrates all the raw talent that would later lead to her unforgettable work on "Hee Haw". There's some (mostly Misty-related) nudity, but there's very little sex for this kind of flick and even less violence. But if you have a soft spot in your heart for early 70's drive-in Americana, you could do worse I guess.