Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Mark L. Lester

Writer:

Vernon Zimmerman (writer)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Bobby Jo was a car hop, she wanted to be a country singer. He was a hustler who dreamed he was Billy The Kid. For a while they had something... and then...

Plot:

A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Busty | On The Run | Beautiful Woman | Fugitive

Cast

Marjoe Gortner	...	Lyle Wheeler
Lynda Carter	...	Bobbie Jo Baker
Jesse Vint	...	Slick Callahan
Merrie Lynn Ross	...	Pearl Baker
Belinda Balaski	...	Essie Beaumont
Gene Drew	...	Sheriff Hicks
Peggy Stewart	...	Hattie Baker
Gerrit Graham	...	Magic Ray
John Durren	...	Deputy Abel Gance
Virgil Frye	...	Joe Grant
James Gammon	...	Leather Salesman
Howard R. Kirk	...	Mr. Potts
Aly Yoder	...	Mrs. Potts
Joe Kurtzo	...	Pinball Hood
Chuck Russell	...	Deputy

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (video re-rating) | UK:X (original rating, cut version) | Norway:16 (video rating) | New Zealand:R16 | USA:R | Norway:(Banned) (1977-2003) (cinema release) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Company:

Caldwell Productions

Trivia:

Lynda Carter's movie debut.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 3 (1996) (V)

Soundtrack:

City Lights

Bobbie & Hyde!!!

This is a fascinating, simplistic rip-off of exploitation films like BADLANDS, BONNIE & CLYDE and SMOKEY & THE BANDIT. The plot is so elemental, the continuity so disjointed, you honestly don't know what to expect. It also feels as if this movie were once much longer, and was chopped to bits to fit drive-in double bill schedules. Which is fine, because IT'S BETTER STUPID. Kid evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner is simply psycho as "The Outlaw," a cross between a revival preacher and a drugged-out Jesse James. He's wild and arrogant, a largely unsympathetic character. The star, though, is Lynda Carter, aka "Wonder Woman", who comes across as one of the slinkiest buxom hillbillies to ever trudge across a movie screen. But even more exciting than a topless Wonder Woman is her sidekick, the luscious Belinda Balaski, who comes across here like a nude Eve Plumb. As we are treated to her charms, we think "topless Jan Brady, topless Jan Brady...". This movie is riddled through and through with cliche characters: cliche sheriff, cliche deputy, cliche hippie pals, cliche rubes, each more cardboard than the rest, but they're SO darn cartoony, they're funny as all get out. This film is a riot in spite of itself. Released by good ole AIP. Oh yeh, Bobby Bare sings the title song, "City Lights," about a million times. Good solid 70s rural crud.