(1972) The Unholy Rollers
DRAMA
Co-written and directed by Vernon Zimmerman, a roller derby movie released three months later after "Kansas City Bomber" starring Rachel Welch, except "The Unholy Rollers" is an exploitation film executive produced by Roger Cormon. And like all exploitation films, the acting are always secondary as opposed to the action, nudity, the corny tough dialogue and shocking moments. In this one it's the nudity and objective rough scenes how the central character had been treated by others.
At the opening show cases a roller derby competition, showcasing the roaring crowd, with a blonde woman being one of the amongst the spectators. And we then see this same young woman, Karen Walker (Claudia Jennings) back at work chatting with a co-worker about her experience, at a cat food factory, she is then being sexually harassed by her supervisor after pushing for a raise. Because her supervisor made more unwanted physical advances toward her she then rebels and wrecks the canning line before walking out of the factory for good. When she comes home, we then see she lives with a young couple, Donna (Candice Roman) and her boyfriend, Greg (Alan Vint), and she tells them she has just quit her job and wanting do a try out with the derby. And by the time Karen makes it in, she begins to clash or create hostility with fellow teammates, particularly with Mickey (Betty Anne Rees) as she used to be the current front runner of the team called "LA Avengers" who they often battle it out with the San Diego Demons. Besides being involved with an already married man, named Nick (Jay Varela), she begins to let her ego get the better of her pushing her friends as well as love ones aside, who continues to push the envelope.
When it comes to an exploitation movie, I think I liked it as much as the other exploitation movies can be whether it be "Foxy Brown", "Dolemite or "Caged Fury" to name a few where the exploitation themes is supposed to stand out than the acting and production budget, waking this one I was able to watch throughout. Interesting enough is the Martin Scorsese on screen credit where the version I saw says that the movie was edited by him but upon looking at the credits on here, it says he was part of the editing department as supervising editor.
Co-written and directed by Vernon Zimmerman, a roller derby movie released three months later after "Kansas City Bomber" starring Rachel Welch, except "The Unholy Rollers" is an exploitation film executive produced by Roger Cormon. And like all exploitation films, the acting are always secondary as opposed to the action, nudity, the corny tough dialogue and shocking moments. In this one it's the nudity and objective rough scenes how the central character had been treated by others.
At the opening show cases a roller derby competition, showcasing the roaring crowd, with a blonde woman being one of the amongst the spectators. And we then see this same young woman, Karen Walker (Claudia Jennings) back at work chatting with a co-worker about her experience, at a cat food factory, she is then being sexually harassed by her supervisor after pushing for a raise. Because her supervisor made more unwanted physical advances toward her she then rebels and wrecks the canning line before walking out of the factory for good. When she comes home, we then see she lives with a young couple, Donna (Candice Roman) and her boyfriend, Greg (Alan Vint), and she tells them she has just quit her job and wanting do a try out with the derby. And by the time Karen makes it in, she begins to clash or create hostility with fellow teammates, particularly with Mickey (Betty Anne Rees) as she used to be the current front runner of the team called "LA Avengers" who they often battle it out with the San Diego Demons. Besides being involved with an already married man, named Nick (Jay Varela), she begins to let her ego get the better of her pushing her friends as well as love ones aside, who continues to push the envelope.
When it comes to an exploitation movie, I think I liked it as much as the other exploitation movies can be whether it be "Foxy Brown", "Dolemite or "Caged Fury" to name a few where the exploitation themes is supposed to stand out than the acting and production budget, waking this one I was able to watch throughout. Interesting enough is the Martin Scorsese on screen credit where the version I saw says that the movie was edited by him but upon looking at the credits on here, it says he was part of the editing department as supervising editor.