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La Stu here with a fresh case of Schafer, a vat of whipped cream, my tap shoes, and Rhino Home Video’s latest triumph of the pill, Superchick. If this Crown International tour de tush doesn’t make your DVD player ooze with afterglow like a Vegas honeymoon, old Vic will personally make you pancakes for a year!
Crown International, the studio that love built, released this piece of air-born amore’in 1971...I was but a lad then, Crosby, Stills, and Nash-ing my Young wherever the free love flowed and nowhere did it flow freer than the back row of the local movie theater. Like its contemporary Airport, Superchick offered a glimpse into the heady world of the airline world and its perks. And boy does this Superchick have perks. Great Doms of Delouise does she have perks!
All rib-ticklin’ aside, those times we needed heroes and Superman wasn’t returning anybody’s calls. Nixon was busy orchestrating the greatest underground recording session in U.S. History and Walking Tall was a just glimpse in Joe Don Baker’s eye, the time was right for the Hai Karate kickin’ antics of a gal that didn’t take no guff, the time was right for Superchick.
Offering a fresh look at the flight attendant by day/good-time Charlotte by night genre (an oft-neglected one in the American cinema), Tara B.True (aka Superchick, portrayed by that inimitable loose chanteuse Joyce Jillson), is the flight attendant that you never want to place back in the upright position. With a guest appearnce by screen legend John Carradine in the role of Igor Smith, this flick has more credibility than a Peter Fonda film festival in Sedona.
So light up that cigarette, turn off the ringer, and grab the Kleenex ‘cause this ain’t exactly a jerker that produces tears.
Superchick arrives first class on Rhino Home Video May 14...
Somebody toss me a Schafer and cash in my frequent flyer miles!
Vic La Stu
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