{"id":30716,"date":"2020-07-24T11:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=30716"},"modified":"2020-07-11T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:50:31","slug":"the-unholy-rollers-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=30716","title":{"rendered":"The Unholy Rollers (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-30694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-1383x2048.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/4d12c5618d35d875866b1a638a22c134-scaled.jpg 1729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A locker room look at the toughest broads in the world!&#8221; That&#8217;s the poster tag line for &#8220;The Unholy Rollers&#8221; and it pretty much sums up what the makers of this film were aiming for, a leering behind-the-scenes action\/comedy about roller derby. Claudia Jennings (&#8220;Death Sport&#8221; &#8220;Gator Bait&#8221;) gets fed up with her job at a cannery after brazen 1970s sexual harassment and decides to join the roller derby. This results in comedy, romance, and ladies in various states of undresss, as you might expect from a Roger Corman produced film of this era. Corman&#8217;s New World Pictures were having great success with their cycle of women-in-prison films and their nurse and co-ed films, so why not branch out into sports comedy films? And believe it or not, this wasn&#8217;t the first roller derby film of the time. &#8220;Derby&#8221; came out the year before and Raquel Well appeared in &#8220;Kansas City Bomber&#8221; the same year. Roller derby even found it&#8217;s way into the plot of of Disney&#8217;s &#8220;The Shaggy D.A.&#8221; so derby was HOT during this time. As for this film, it&#8217;s a typical Corman raunchy sex comedy and the quality is about what you&#8217;d expect, which is it&#8217;s not terrible, but nothing all that great either. Still, I will say I was entertained and I did enjoy seeing an oddly young Victor Argo as the team trainer. FUN FACT! Martin Scorsese was a supervising editor on this film, the year before &#8220;Mean Streets&#8221; was released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A locker room look at the toughest broads in the world!&#8221; That&#8217;s the poster tag line for &#8220;The Unholy Rollers&#8221; and it pretty much sums up what the makers of this film were aiming for, a leering behind-the-scenes action\/comedy about roller derby. 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