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DIRECTED by SEYMOUR ROBBIE CAST JOE NAMATH as C.C. RYDER ANN-MARGARET as ANN WILLIAM SMITH as MOON JENNIFER BILLINGSLEY as POM POM TEDA BRACCI as PIG GREG MULLAVEY as LIZARD DAN CHASTAIN as EDDIE ELLIS SID HAIG as CROW BRUCE GLOVER as CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT MIKE BATTLE as RABBIT KIVA KELLY as TANDALAYA JACKIE ROHR as ZIT ZIT ROBERT KEYWORTH as CHARLIE HOPKINS ALAN PAPPE as PHOTOGRAPHER NED WERTIMER as MOTORCYCLE SALESMAN WILLIAM BALDWIN as NIGHT WATCHMAN SHIRLEY EDER as LADY TICKET TAKER JOHN WASSERMAN as STORE MANAGER BONNIE EMERSON as MODEL PAULA WARNER as MODEL and WAYNE COCHRAN & THE C.C. RIDERS |
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C.C. [Namath], Lizard and Captain Midnight come across fashion designer Ann [Margaret] on a desert highway in her broken-down limousine. [Most of the scenes were filmed in Arizona.] Her driver has gone for help. While Joe tries to fix the car, the other two try to rape her in the back. Joe comes to the rescue and is later berated for not having proper gang spirit by gang leader Moon (Smith).The gang checks out a local motocross competition where Ann is doing a fashion shoot. They make fools of themselves trying to run the motocross track on choppers but C.C. decides motocross racing is for him. He makes the apparently easy transition to dirt bike racing, getting signed on to a racing team on the strength of one practice run. The gang members make a big to-do when C.C. wins making Moon jealous (almost childishly petulant). Moon starts a fight with C.C. when C.C. withholds $100 from the winnings he turns over to the gang. After the fight with Moon, C.C. seduces Moon's woman. He takes back all the money which Moon gave her for safekeeping. C.C. leaves the gang, finds Ann and moves into her fancy home with her. After a few days of romantic dalliance, Ann is kidnapped by Moon and taken back to the gang's encampment. C.C. is told to come up with $1000 or she'll be gang-raped. C.C. says he'll go double or nothing, $2000 if Moon can beat him on a flat track racing choppers. Moon is killed during the race in a spectacular crash. C.C. takes advantage of the confusion and takes off with Ann.
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Moon rules the gang from a wing chair throne. |
When the gang's bank account gets low, the girls are sent out to "work" to replenish it. |
Just before the big fight scene, the script has Moon but not C.C. ,barefoot. Smith did his own fighting and had a nice karate kick; that little precaution probably made the scene easier to film without injuries to Namath.
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