The Cheerleaders
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Directed by | Paul Glickler |
Written by | Ace Baandige Paul Glickler Richard Lerner Tad Richards |
Produced by | Robert Boggs Paul Glickler Richard Lerner |
Starring | Stephanie Fondue Denise Dillaway Jovita Bush Brandy Woods Kimberly Hyde |
Cinematography | Richard Lerner |
Edited by | Joseph Ancore Paul Glickler Larry Goldman Richard Lerner |
Music by | David Herman |
Distributed by | Cinemation Industries |
Release date | March 1973 |
Running time | 76 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | US$153,000[citation needed] |
Box office | $2.5 million (US/ Canada rentals)[1] |
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The Cheerleaders is a 1973 comedy film directed by Paul Glickler and starring Stephanie Fondue and Denise Dillaway.[citation needed]
The film's success spawned a series of sequels during the 1970s.[citation needed]
Plot
A group of high school cheerleaders are having sex with the opposing team's players to make them too tired to play football properly, allowing their team to win an unprecedented series of games.[citation needed]
The film courted controversy due to its plot and subject matter: the titular cheerleaders are seen seducing, amongst others, the football coach, a female gym coach, and the school bus driver. There was also female on male rape when the cheerleaders kidnap and then have sex with the members of the opposing football team the night before the big game. In areas where the age of consent was 18 at the time, or where the laws on consent prohibited under-18s having sex with over-18s, there was controversy over statutory rape.[citation needed]
Re-releases of the film have been renamed as "The Eighteen Year Old Schoolgirls" in some regions,[clarification needed][citation needed] presumably so as to remove at least part of that particular controversy, as the exact age of the girls was never stated within the film.[citation needed]
Cast
- Stephanie Fondue as Jeannie
- Denise Dillaway as Claudia
- Jovita Bush as Bonnie
- Sandy Evans as Suzie
- Kim Stanton as Patty
- Brandy Woods as Debbie
- Raoul Hoffnung as Novi
- Jonathan Jacobs as Norm
- Richard Meatwhistle as Jon
- Patrick Wright as Coach Gannon
Sequels
The Cheerleaders (1973) was followed by The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), directed by Jack Hill, Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), directed by Richard Lerner, and The Great American Girl Robbery (1979) (aka Cheerleaders Wild Weekend), directed by Jeff Werner.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, 9 January 1974 p 19