The Mini-Skirt Mob

The Mini-Skirt Mob
Teaser poster
Directed by Maury Dexter
Produced by Maury Dexter
Written by James Gordon White
Starring Diane McBain
Patty McCormack
Harry Dean Stanton
Vic Diaz
Music by Les Baxter
Val Johns
Cinematography Archie R. Dalzell
Edited by Sidney Levin
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date
  • May 1968 (1968-05)
Running time
82 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1,500,000 (US/ Canada)[1]

The Mini-Skirt Mob is a 1968 outlaw biker film about an all-female motorcycle gang. The film was directed by Maury Dexter, and stars Diane McBain, Jeremy Slate, Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack, Harry Dean Stanton and Sandra Marshall.

Plot

Jilted by boyfriend Jeff Logan, Shayne (the leader of an all-female motorcycle gang) decides to torment Jeff and his new bride, Connie.

The harassment backfires when Shayne's sister Edie is accidentally killed by a Molotov cocktail and when Shayne herself ends up hanging by her fingernails off a cliff.

Cast

Reception

Maury Dexter says the film was the most successful of all the ones he made at AIP.[2]

See also

References

  1. "Big Rental Films of 1968", Variety, January 8, 1969 p 15. Please note this figure is a rental accruing to distributors.
  2. Dexter, Maury (2012). Highway to Hollywood (PDF). p. 132.

Further reading

  • Heldman, Caroline; Frankel, Laura Lazarus; Holmes, Jennifer (April–June 2016). ""Hot, black leather, whip" The (de)evolution of female protagonists in action cinema, 1960–2014". Sexualization, Media, and Society. Sage. 2 (2). doi:10.1177/2374623815627789. Pdf.


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