The Thief and the Roller Derby Queen
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Skip to top Proudly powered by WordPress. Wanting to be accepted by the others, Karen goes along. Once at the bar, Karen is approached by Mickey again. Mickey is the lesbian character, and she makes amorous advances towards Karen.
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Karen gets belligerent with Mickey, telling Mickey to get lost. Feeling insulted, Mickey wants to 'teach Karen a lesson'. So, Mickey and some of the other Avengers, pin Karen to a pool table, tearing off all of her clothes. Naked and furious, Karen gives them all a brutal tongue-lashing.
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Especially Mickey, who she vows to get even with. With vengeance, and a thirst for fame driving her, Karen quickly rises to the top of the Avengers team roster. Karen even beats Mickey's scoring record, eclipsing Mickey to become the Avenger's new number one skater. But fame and glory go to Karen's head. She refuses to be a team player, or follow orders by the team's Owner.
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Soon, Karen is headed for a fall. And she learns the hard way that, star or not, she's as expendable as any other skater in the league. This film is jam-packed with lots of flashy skating footage, ribald humor, violent fights on the track, and an overall sense of raunchy debauchery. The bitter rivalry between Karen and Mickey, is the meatiest plot-line in the film. There's just not much else about the movie, that holds the viewer's interest. Claudia Jennings performance as Karen Walker, is brilliant. Claudia had a wholesome, all-American cheerleader kind of beauty. Yet she manages to make the violent, ruffian qualities of Karen Walker completely believable.
Betty was born with the face of a villain. It has lots of severe, razor-sharp angles, and looks like an abscessed tooth feels-painfully evil. Unholy rollers is wild roller-coaster ride, through the rough-and-tumble world of 70s Roller Derby. It's destined to go down in history, as one of the biggest cult B movies, of all time. It's a must-see, for any 70s B movie fan. Eegah Guy 11 April This is the real deal!
If you love the lowbrow sport of roller derby or are just a fan of Minnesota-born Claudia Jennings in her first starring role then this film is a must-see! Raunchy and violent just like the women-in-prison films that Roger Corman was also pumping out at the time in fact many of the supporting cast were also appearing in those WIP films. Sure this film has the novelty value of having Martin Scorsese's name in the credits but there's much to enjoy in the film besides looking for his editorial hand with an anarchic non-ending that just seemed perfect. I love everything about this film, from Roberta Collins in general to Claudia's go-go boots to her Avengers tattoo which she obtains at a 'Tattoo While You Wait' parlor???!?
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Do have one question for the experts Great early rock-n-roll soundtrack Also notable as Candice Roman's final film Pray for a DVD reissue, it's great fun, and has a classic girl-gone-crazy ending! Woodyanders 14 April The late, great, sorely missed Claudia Jennings, the one and only breath-takingly beauteous blonde goddess of deliciously down'n'dirty 70's drive-in cinema, is in typically perky, savvy, sexy and splendidly resilient form as Karen Walker, a feisty, recalcitrant former factory worker who becomes an especially tough, ruthless, fearsome and hugely popular roller derby star, greatly adored by fans and vehemently despised by her fellow roller derby players said players include members of her own team!
Alas, Karen's time in the spotlight proves to be fleeting, due equally to her soon out-of-control over-sized ego and the loutish blue collar audience's unreliably fickle taste for flash-in-the-pan heroines.
An authentically grubby'n'grungy grind-house slice-of-rowdy-lowlife character study centering on a terrifically trashy sports phenomenon that was immensely faddish in the early 70's, "Unholy Rollers" sure hits the righteously roughhouse dirtball spot, thanks to Claudia's raw charisma, commanding screen presence and undeniable smoking hot pulchritude.
Vernon Zimmerman's fast, spiffy direction, working from a funny, nicely eventful and suitably lowbrow script by veteran schlock movie scribe Howard Cohen who also wrote such choice cheese as "Deathstalker" and "Space Raiders" for Roger Corman , keeps the picture hopping along at a quick, breezy clip, capturing the funky working class milieu in affectionately vivid detail while still delivering satisfyingly ample amounts of sex, nudity, violence the dynamic roller derby sequences seriously smoke, going all out with dirty body checks, illegal kicks and punches, volatile umpire and manager brawls, and a truly wild'n'raucous anything-goes gut-busting riot ending -- y'know, the whole gnarly nine yards, baby , and raunchy humor.
The top-rate B-movie cast includes luscious blonde 70's exploitation flick perennial Roberta Collins as nasty rival Jennifer, the adorable Candice Roman of "The Big Bird Cage" as Claudia's endearingly ditsy stripper best friend Donna, "Macon County Line" 's Alan Vint as Donna's dim-bulb beau Greg, Jerry Lewis film regular Kathleen Freeman as Claudia's gruff, hard-nosed trailer park white-trash mother, and tough guy character actor Vic Argo in a really amusing bit as Vinnie the trainer.
Executive produced by Roger Corman, with sharp, fluid editing by Martin Scorsese and a nifty, jazzy, junky score by Bobby Hart, "Unholy Rollers" makes the grade with flying gaudy colors as a simply super serving of wonderfully wacky'n'tacky 70's exploitation sleaze at its most sensationally snappy and exuberant. The opening of the film is a roller derby just getting started.
The crowd stands up to salute the national anthem, which is turned on a record player by a drunk janitor, and the record is severely warped. Nice opening, you know it has a sense of humor about itself. So, from the get go, it is an interesting b-movie ride. Karen Walker is tired of her job at the cat food cannery, and shoves a can of cat food in her sleazeball managers face before she walks out. She goes home and informs her nymphomaniac, topless go-go dancer roommate, who is constantly bonking her boyfriend kind of a low IQ Jean Paul Belamondo look alike , that she is going to roller derby tryouts.
The glamorous roller derby guys consist of the drunk doctor, the promoters, and the detective from King of New York as the coach.
As they watch the tryouts, they say things like, "Put the fag on the Demons team. She goes home and poses in her uniform, and it is oddly almost like the Taxi Driver "You talkin' to me? What is funny, is that the film breaks the fourth wall, in the training sequence, by showing that it is all fake. They are instructed how to hit, take a fall, different ways to scream in pain, and where to stage a fight so the crowd can see clearly.
Yet, throughout the rest of the movie, in any competition, it is treated seriously, for real, complete with locker room pep talks, ignoring the fact that previous scenes explain how it is fake. Karen gets her physical in her underwear and go-go boots. Karen begins to upstage Mickey, the Avengers 1 player. Karen gets humiliated, stripped to her panties, by the other players after the first big game.
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She tears off with one of the guys old, Latino, but wearing a USA flag, puffy pirate shirt and shows her craziness by randomly shooting a pistol off the back of his chopper as they cruise down the street. She gets more popular and looney. Gets the Avengers logo tatooed on her arm. The team gets more jealous of her. Her go-go dancing friend leaves her. Her own team beats, stomps, and whips her with a car antenna one night. She gets crazier and is set up to be replaced. Then we get a finale in witch Karen goes off the deep end, a huge fight ensues, and she skates off into traffic.
All in exploitation fun. Jimbo 13 May It's a shame that Claudia Jennings, Playboy playmate of the year, died at age 29 from a traffic accident, and made a series of low budget, forgettable films. Many of these films still appear on TV from time to time, but not Unholy Rollers, her best film. Unholy Rollers is about Claudia joining a roller derby troupe and because of her personality and strikingly good looks, never being accepted into the group.
The film is low budget all the way. Probably did well at drive-ins and rural markets, but got swamped by Kansas City Bomber released the same year. I never cared for the roller derby, it's quite stupid, but this "inside story" is quite decent. Just don't expect to find it.
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