Street Girls (1975) User Reviews

Reality of a drug addicted street girl is not easy to watch but would be beneficial for teenagers to watch

[Ed-Shullivan · 5/10 · 19 December 2023]

The film quality may be lacking from a cinematic perspective but when you measure the film against the seedy backdrop of strip bars, back alleys and low rental apartment buildings where most of the film scenes were taken than you get the feeling that the director was attempting to make the film as realistic as possible. It is possible that maybe the film director and/or producer have experienced some of the seedier part of drugs and poverity in their personal lives or know someone close to them who has lived it on the streets and brought their reality to the screen.

With the abundance of drugs and alcohol that are readily available, and the ease of pimps and their Johns to find women who are willing to satisfy their own drug related needs with sex then the film Street Girls needed to be developed if only to remind vulnerable young women what can happen to them if they fall victime to becoming street girls themselves. The fathers persistence in attempting to find the truth what has happened to his baby girl was more relaistic than hiring a 1970's TV detective such as Columbo, Kojak or Starsky and Hutch.

This may not be a film classic but it certainly is a story that needed to be told and in my humble opinion should be shown to teenagers 14 and older (even though there is some nudity) to dissuade them from participating in recreational drug use.

I give the film a middle of the road 5 out of 10 IMDb rating.

Cheap and Dull

[Uriah43 · 3/10 · 17 September 2021]

After losing contact with his daughter a middle-aged man decides to investigate her disappearance and he eventually finds himself navigating nightclubs in a seedy section of an American city. It's during this time that he comes across a disturbed young man named "Michael Albert" (Michael Weber) who tells him that she used to live with his sister "Sally" (Carol Case) but that she has moved out and is living with a guy named "Mario" (Jay Derringer). He then offers to show him the nightclub where both of the young women work as dancers. Once he gets there, however, he doesn't find his daughter "Angel" (Christine Souder) there he does meet Sally who tells him things about Mario that makes him even more concerned-and that's just the beginnings of his troubles. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a rather cheap sexploitation film which suffered from a shallow plot and inconsistent acting. And while both Carol Case and Christine Souder performed adequately enough, there just wasn't anything else worth mentioning about this film and I have rated it accordingly.

A sleazier Hardcore

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 18 March 2023]

Before he moved into making TV movies, Michael Miller made Silent Rage and Class Reunion in the same year, as well as another rough film, Jackson County Jail. Street Girls is more raw than all of them, a movie that seemed to be sleazier than the majority of New World's catalogue.

Shockingly, it was co-written by Barry Levinson.

Yes, the same person who directed Rainman.

Angel (Christine Souder in the only movie she'd ever make) goes from college girl to exotic dancer to getting hooked on heroin. Her father (Art Burke) decides to go the Hardcore route four years before that movie was made and head out into the filthy streets to find his little girl. At first, he has the help of her co-worker Sally (Carol Case, also in her only movie) until he learns that she was Angel's lover. Disgusted, he abandons her and continues his search.

This also shows the life that Angel is in, down to a scene where a client brings her a swimming mask so that he can urinate on her. She locks herself in a filthy motel bathroom while he keeps banging on the door, begging for the opportunity to defile her. This scene goes way beyond any small town girl gone wrong movie than any I've seen in mainstream movies.

It's not great, but man, it's not afraid to show how cheap life can be.

Fans of sleazy 1970s exploitation will love it

[Andy-1981 · 2/10 · 25 June 2005]

Future top-notch director Barry Levinson co-wrote this sleazy quickie about a "moralistic" father (who is homophobic yet enjoys strip clubs) searching for his runaway daughter amid a world of prostitution, heroin abuse, and strip club dancing, in all of which she is involved. On the way, he encounters cross-dressers, violent pimps, and his daughter's fellow hookers.

Tons of nudity and seedy characters populate this flick. The acting ranges from decent to hammy; it's hardly surprising that only a couple of the cast members made a single film before or after this one.

Paul Schrader must have seen this before writing the markedly similar HARDCORE (released in 1978), but his version was a definite improvement.

This one was enjoyable for the gratuitous female nudity, little entertainment otherwise.

MPAA: Rated R for abundant nudity, language, drug use, a sex scene, and a couple scenes of violence.

Stay off the street with this one in an unbelievably, briefly told story

[videorama-759-859391 · 2/10 · 8 November 2013]

7O's sexploitation film with a lot of T, this shallow story structured drama, if an unconvincing one, has one freaky fact about it. It was co written by Barry Levinson of all people. They're some really strung out and freaky cats in this 69 minute time waster (better off watching 9 songs) of a father who we see, likes to see other underage girls dance around topless, desperately track down his daughter. From strip club to the strippers pads, we are taken on a quest, we really don't care much for. One loopy character (the one pride asset to this film apart from all the T) who rants on about absolute crap, assists the father in his quest, but is none too much help. Even the pimps in the film aren't scary and it's finale is wrapped up too easily, if pathetic, but really that's cliché of the whole film, despite the sexy and believable performance of the strung daughter who's asked by clients to perform some pretty weird requests. Street Girls suffers, because there's just not enough meat to the story or has far few plot points. It's if the film was written in slap dash form. The film is shallow as a low tide, where luckily as a replacement we have a lot of nudity, and T, and that loon, but that does not make for a good quality film, which something like this is fu..in' far from it.