This site is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of 1960's and '70's Musclecars. I will answer any and all questions about what is original, and what are "Period Correct" modifications. I will also post my personal opinion about what is and is not proper. People are encouraged to debate me or share their own opinions or experiences.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The hottest women in Musclecar movies......
Got a lot of comments after I mentioned Burt Reynolds' female co-star of "White Lightning" in the post about full-size musclecars. A lot of people wrote in with their personal favorites of the hot women in car-chase movies and asked me to rank mine. It's a little off-topic, but I aim to please, and it might be fun. Feel free to send in your lists. Here's my list and why their ranked the way they are. # 1. Jennifer Billingsley-"White Lightning." Like I said the other day-with her dark brown roots showing in her bleach-blonde hair, barefoot almost the whole movie in that tight mini-sundress, "Shake-A-Puddin'" was the quintessential southern trailer-park tramp. She just oozed sex, and her telling Burt-"If you want it, Gator just say so." "If you don't, it's ok." Had me wondering why I never met girls that free and easy. And when Burt got shot, she could drive the 429 / 4-speed "Brown SEE-Dan" to safety. # 2. Darlanne Fluegel-"To Live and Die in LA". Bill Freidkin ( The Director of "The French Connection" ) actually topped that legendary chase with a young William Peterson ( Of "CSI" fame ) driving a Chevy Impala cop car the WRONG way down an L.A. freeway. Peterson's hooker / convict / informant / girlfriend was brilliantly played by classicly trained stage actress Darlanne Fluegel, who had no qualms about getting naked on several occasions. She knew she was a whore, Petersen's character knew it; that made it uninamous. When she says- "Some bastard I set up for you is going to figure it out and come over here and kill me someday." "What would you do if I stopped sending you busts?" And he replied "I'd violate your parole." You knew she was going to set him up. And she did. # 3. Jacqueline Bisset- "Bullitt". If 3 million teenage boy poster buyers thought she was hot in that wet t-shirt at age 33 ( "The Deep") in 1977-( Only Farrah Fawcett outsold her that year ). They should have seen her at 24 in "Bullitt". Her flowing hair, smokin' bod, and British accent turned many guys on, but her characters whiny personality-she actually pukes after seeing a corpse and has a hissy fit at Steve McQueen AFTER he's been in a high-speed chase, totalled his Mustang, and been shot at. These high-maintenance antics kept her out of the top spot. # 4. Isabelle Adjani- "The Driver". Adjani is great at playing tortured chanteuses-she stole "Diabolique" from Sharon Stone. Here she plays Mysterious Getaway driver Ryan O' Neal's sometime love interest who also books jobs for him. When she gets caught between a crazed cop and a crazed gangster who both want to off O' Neal, she refuses to rat him out and meets a bad end. But her murder sends O ' Neal's character on his quest for vengenance, which sets up the films excellent final hour, and climactic chase. # 5 Susan George-"Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry ". Susan was a good actress and smokin' hot-her sexy inter-racial love scene with boxer Ken Norton in "Mandingo" the following year would give her some Sharon Stone / Basic Instinct style noteriety for a few years, but she's largely wasted here. There's some good car-chase action in a '66 Chevy Impala and later in a '69 Charger, and an excellent kidnapping / extortion plot gone wrong, but she spends most of her time pouting while Peter Fonda and his sidekick make fun of her. However, since she spends almost the entire movie barefoot in hip-hugger jeans and a skimpy halter-top, she made the list anyway. # 6. Maureen McMormick-"Moonshine County Express". John Saxon had the male lead and a badass '71 Challenger was the automotive star, but Maureen made this R-rated crime saga on hiatus from "The Brady Bunch" to toughen up her image and maybe get better roles. You actually hope Saxon can save her from the baddies who kidnap her and wire her to a bomb in a barn. If Marcia Brady bound and gagged in denim shorts and a halter top won't get your freak on, then you obviously weren't a teenage boy in the '70's. Sadly, she never did anything else after "Brady Bunch" was cancelled. But she played a southern tramp with a no-good boyfriend as good as anyone ever has. #7 I'll have to watch the movie to get her name, but who could forget the naked motorcycle rider that tempts Kowalski in "Vanishing Point" . That's how smokin hot she was. I couldn't find her name on a quick search of the 'net, but she deserves a spot. I know some people are going to gripe about the absence of two big hits- "Smokey and the Bandit" and the "Fast and Furious" franchise. While the car action was excellent-come on guys-Sally Field is a nice person and an Oscar-winning actress, but the object of late-night fantasies? I don't think so. Even degenerate ex-Catholic school boys can't get worked up over the Flying Nun. Eww. As for the "Fast and Furious", Jordana Brewster is smokin' hot, but she spends all of her screen time mediating the "bromance" fights between stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. I mean we don't even get a gratutious bikini scene ( Eva Mendes had one in F&F 2 ) when they supposedly went to Brazil. If you can't even act sexy and you don't show any skin, then you don't belong on this list. Sorry. Can't wait to hear the arguments over this one. Mastermind
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment