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Teenage Hitchhikers

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A film that's not afraid of what it's trying to be. (Full) Nudity every 60 seconds or so. In your face dancing (shake that butt!). Silly, lighthearted yet sometimes funny jokes. Teenagers hitch-hiking and using their sexual abilities to pay their way. Unbelievable scenerios. Beautiful girls. Older lesbian coming on to them. Them coming onto every guy they meet. A few explicit scenes. Likeable characters/actresses. "Let's write our hitch-hiking sign on our butts so we can moon the viewer (oh yeah, and the drivers) so they'll pick us up." This is everything it claims to be and more.

I need to start writing more reviews, because I'm sick of seeing bad reviews on Amazon for movies I find extremely entertaining.

If you don't find this film enjoyable, then it makes me think you don't understand the title of the movie, and what the front cover of the DVD case represent. This isn't Oscars baby, this is EXPLOITATION!

Oh my goodness where to begin? Teenage Hitch Hikers is the 70's in a nut shell.At least as far as Drive-In movie fare went.Kudo's to Exploitation Digital for digging this one up.The video transfer is top notch which is impressive considering the source material.Okay so what exactly is the film about ? Well two young girls Bird( Sandra Cassell )and Mouse (Kathy Christopher) are hitch hiking across the country. Along the way they encounter a band of wanna be musicians,a horny truck driver,a traveling salesman.a hapless cop,a would be rapist.another young runaway (Nikki Lynn),an older wealthy lesbian,a used car salesman,a peeping tom boutique owner.a hippie commune and the rapist again.That's about the story there our heroines travel along and meet up with these various situations.The film is a comedy as light as cotton candy.Some may cringe at the idea of rape being played for laughs and it is a bit controversial.But the rapist played by Ric Mancini is played as hapless and dumb.The girls out smart him twice in the film and he asks to be arrested by the end of the film.Everything about Hitch Hikers is played for fun the actresses are having fun and the set ups are played for fun.They do steal and seduce guys (and the lesbian) but it's done in a cute or funny manner.70's film fans will likely remember Cassell also known as Sandra Peabdy as Meri the poor girl killed and tortured in Wes Craven's grind house fare The Last House on the Left.Luckily cute Sandra is treated a whole lot better in this film.She's a very attractive actress with a natural body and look and an air of playful sexiness about her.Kathy Christopher is fine as the funnier of the pair.She is smaller than Cassell almost skinny but exudes enthusiasm.Nikki Lynn's virginal character is annoying but Lynn herself looks the part the most and may have been the youngest of the 3 actresses.Oh yes the skin factor let's just say that Bird and Mouse are naked or semi nude bout 50 % of the film.But this was 1974 and free loving was still in the air. If you like silly little sex filled 70's drive-in fare then Teenage Hitch Hikers id the film for you.

"We're just a couple of lonely virgins, innocent to the vices of the world." Says Mouse to Dick Daggart, a sleazy traveling lingerie sales man who had picked Mouse and Bird up to give them a 'ride'...I mean a lift.

Teenage Hitch-hikers is a purely tongue in cheek expoitation sex comedy & hippy road movie that plays out like either a fairy tale or as Greek mythology. Mouse, played by super cute bubbly blonde Sorno actress Chris Jordan talks about her dreams of finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, while living by the motto 'Do onto others before they do onto us'. She is hitch hiking with her brunet bookend partner Bird, played by Sandra Peabody AKA Sandra Cassell of Last House On The Left fame. Bird cares less about principles and more about finding cheeseburgers. Along the way they have encounters with individuals and groups of fellow travelers who take the place of The Cyclops, The Cheshire Cat, and The Big Bad Wolf.

They are having a hard time heading west and decide to use the best currancy that they have to get a ride. After flashing a bit of skin they are eventually picked up by an RV stuffed full of hairy guys, musical instruments, and groupies. One groupie named Parasol explains to Mouse and Bird that she is a 'parasite who feeds off the energy of other people', before informing them that 'if you want to ride you have to slide'. Not wanting any part of this incestuous little family (even though this is an incestuous little film), Mouse pulls the plug on this encounter and her and Bird find themselves back out on the highway again.

At first you find yourself thinking. "This is nice and all, but where is all the nudity and sex?" Don't worry, give it a minute...This film puts out. For what fallows is possibly the best wet T-shirt scene in motion picture history. Full of birds eye views of Russ Myers type camera angles as the girls kick out of their jeans and make their sheer white under garments transparent. This scene is capped off with the tasteless surprise of a rather amorous fish shoved down the front of Peabody's panties.

There's a place in France where the ladies wear no pants.

Immediately afterwards, Teenage Hitch-hikers proves that the wet T-shirt scene was no fluke. Its ability to indulge the lens with flatteringly striking close ups of the girls best assests sets it apart from standard exploitation. You'll have a hard time not drooling as this lovely pair dance for free cheeseburgers at a truck stop in just their flimsly under pants. This doesn't get them free food, but Chris Jordan's butt shaking in your fandango causes a truck drivers beer bottle to orgasmically gush out foam. Defeated, the girls decide to start taking advantage of people to eventually get themselves a car of their own. From here they meet Dick Daggart. Peabody entices him by sucking on a Sugar Daddy, before Mouse and Bird roll him of his money while jumping his sleazy middle age bones. Dick Daggart eventually gets pulled over for impersonating J. Edgar Hover. The cop warns the girls about an escaped rapist before sternly telling them not to hitch hike anymore. Yet they are still allowed to leave with the wad of cash they stole from Dick Daggart.

The attempted rape of Jenny is actually quit brutal considering the nature of the film and rapist himself. Mouse and Bird resce Jenny by posing as a couple of wayward girls who are into bondage. Peabody is quit hot in this scean as she lays on her back with her legs straight up in the air. The rapist proves to be as silly as a Warner Brothers cartoon character and so he lets the girls tie him up to a tree. He is still the Big Bad Wolf of the film and shows up to terrorize the girls once again at the end of the movie.

"I request the company of your pleasure."

From here on out Jenny rides with Mouse and Bird which is actually a bit of a drag. She cries like Lucille Ball, is as ditsy as Susanne Summers in Three's Company, and uses an annoying brat voice, the likes of which I haven't heard since all the 'shmoopy shmoopy' talk on the Seinfeld Soup Nazi episode. Luckily for the true exploitation connoisseur there is more then enough sexual mayhem and oddball 70's charm to fill the void that Jenny creates. The other plus for the viewer, is that despite taking advantage of everyone they encounter, Jordan and peabody are still very likable lead characters while proving to have some remarkably capable comedic timing.

There is an all out orgy near the end of this film that has to be seen to be believed. It is hosted by a flamboyand gay guy named Bruce who says things like.
"Would you like to meet my pet snake?" A deranged fellow opportunist hitch hiker named Gillian who looks almost like the Ajax snorter from Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke. A whole bunch of unzipping crotches and unsnapping breasts in your face, fallowed by over seven straight minutes of wall to wall bombastic orgiastic flesh. It is quit a spectactle to behold. It is a scene that like many others in this picture pushes the envelope as to whether this film was even suitable for 70's drive in sleaze. I have a feeling that it was way too graphic. You don't actually see any real pornography, but you know that much of the sex is not simulated. This film promises exploitation, and that is precisely what you get. Not much of a story, but lots and lots of exploitation. This is the type of film that by the end of it, you will feel like you've just been laid yourself.

It has it all. The spontaneity of the two lead female characters who use their charms to make various motorists embark them on their way to the high road, which invariably pushes them in all sorts of troubles or fun. What is really refreshing about this film is that we are not used to this kind of stuff nowadays. Hippies; rapists; orgies; nudism; etc. All the elements present could have easily contributed to make a violent film. But it is quite the contrary. It's all fun! Sexploitation which exploits only the comedic aspects of nudity, like all those Italian and British sex comedies of the 60's and 70's. Yet it's not as dumb as it could have been. You can easily see that in those years, feminism hadn't take part of the peeping tom aspect of the presentation, such as in movies of this kind. The two females seek adventure. They are openly looking to meet rock groups; plan to become groupies; then they seem to want to make money and meet interesting people; they participate in an orgy, etc. They are naively titillating the males they meet on their way with their apparent enthusiasm and willingness to have sex, while they try to win something in return. Perhaps, the need to educate or to warn on some practices shown in this movie had not yet been needed in general in the Society of the time. So that is the look of apparent liberty which is so enjoyable in it. Everything is permitted and as a hippie comedy, you will love it! And for those who are afraid to find elements of pornography, forget it, the nudity here is only there to titillate you, on a sexy yet, daring, but controlled level. So expect to have fun before everything else as all the situations in this movie are funny! Also expect to discover a lost gem of a forgotten genre.

Sandra Cassel (Peabody) was the most beautiful actress from the 1970s. She starred in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left and a few rare 70s cult/soft films. This silly/sexy grindhouse romp is among her best. Lets all hope, with baited breath that more of her films are released..

This lacking hitch-hike movie has more twists and turns than the road to Beijing. The whole plot revolves around Sandra Peabody and Chris Jordan's bodies, thankfully they're bad actresses. Sandra Cassel (Peabody) was the most beautiful actress from the 1970's. She starred in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left and a few rare 70's cult/soft films. This silly/sexy grindhouse romp is among her worst. There are even hippies singing terrible folk-love songs.

Honestly, the only reason to see this dated, rather predictable movie is to see lovely Sandra Peabody in various states of undress.

If you can tolerate the 70's mentality and style of 70's hitch-hike exploitation movies, then the rest of the movie is about below average with a twisted surprise ending.

Let's all hope, with baited breath that more of her films are not released.