Saturday, June 28, 2014

The hottest women in Car-Chase Movies....Redux by requests........

About a year ago I ran a post about the hottest women in car chase movies. It was popular and got a lot of good-natured debate going. Recently I had a few requests to re-run it-especially since F&F 7 is coming out-shot around Paul Walker's death and since they killed Gal Gadot and Gina Carano in "F&F" 6,- People have asked me to do it again and I aim to please-so here's my rankings of the hottest women in Muslcecar / Car Chase movies.  # 1. Jennifer Billingsley "White Lightning". With her dark-brown roots showing in her bleach-blonde hair, barefoot in that tight, flowery mini-sundress almost the whole movie, "Shake a Puddin" just oozed sex. When she runs her bare foot up and down his biceps in the front seat of his famous brown LTD and tells Burt Reynolds-"Gator if you want it, just ask." "If you don't that's ok too." I about shit. Burt replies-"What about Roy?" ( Bo Hopkins-her evil moonshiner boyfriend ) She says-"He's not gonna be standing there watching us is he?" "I hope not." Gator says. Later, she has sex with Burt in the river-while Bo Hopkins sleeps in the house up the road. When Burt sets her up for rape so they can escape Big Bear and Sheriif Connors henchman-she doesn't even hold it against him. They kick ass and she drives Burt to a home for unwed mothers for medical attention for his gunshot wounds. She epitomized the southern slut that men die and kill for. Others have tried to do it-Kim Basinger in "No Mercy", Teri Hatcher in "Heaven's Prisoners" and most recently Reese Witherspoon in "Mud"-but none have ever been able to top "Shake a Puddin."  #2. Darlanne Fluegel  "To Live and Die in L.A." This under-rated thriller was directed by William Freidkin ( "The French Connection" "The Exorcist") and starred a young, pre-"CSI" William Peterson as a Secret Service agent after a young Willem Dafoe, who was a master counterfieter that killed Peterson's partner. A classically trained stage actress who'd been wasted in Horror-"Eyes of Laura Mars" and Sci-Fi-"Battlestar Galactica"-she got to show her chops here as Ruth-"Chance's" informant / hooker / girlfriend. And she was naked a lot. When she asks him what would you do if I stopped feeding you information? and he replies "I'd violate your parole and send you back to prison" You know she's going to set him up. And she does. What was great about her performance was she wasn't the cliche' hard-luck girl with a heart of gold. She's a bitch and a whore and she uses men to get what she wants and doesn't care; she knows it and we know it, that makes it unanimous. # 3. Jacqueline Bisset "Bullitt". At 33, in 1977, millions of teenage boys thought she was so smokin hot in bikini panties and a wet-t-shirt that the "Deep" poster outsold everything, inclucing Farrah Fawcett in the red bathing suit that was the 1976 champ. You need to watch "Bullitt" and catch her at 24. The british accent, naked and barefoot under Steve McQueen's wrinkled shirt, offering him breakfast-Like Waynes world-"Schwing!" Only her vomiting after seeing a corpse and reading Steve off for being jaded kept her out of the top spots. # 4. Susan George "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry", "A Small Town in Texas." I upped her ranking because she's in not one, but two cult classics. Three, actually if you count "Mandingo" where her sexy inter-racial love scenes with Boxer Ken Norton got her some Sharon Stone style "Basic Instinct" noteriety for a few years.  "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry" actually had a good story about a kidnapping / robbery gone wrong and some good automotive action. She's largely wasted as Peter Fonda and his co-hort make fun of her for most of the film. However she gets honorable mention for spending the whole picture barefoot in hip-hugger jeans and a straining denim halter top. She plays basically the same character-an ignorant slut-as Dan Ackroyd would say- in "A Small Town in Texas". Her football hero boyfriend gets railroaded to prison by the corrupt sheriff on drug charges. So while he's serving time,she of course has no choice but to start sleeping with the sheriff!! Then he comes home, and as they said in Johnny Dangerously-it's Fargin War. Good action and a fight to the finish finale. #5 Isabelle Adjani "The Driver" Adjani is great at playing tortured chanteuses-she stole "Diabolique" from Sharon Stone. As getaway driver Ryan O'Neal's contact and sometime lover-it's her murder that sends him on a path of vengenance and sets up the films excellent final hour. # 6. I'll have to go on the 'net and get her name-but the naked motorcycle rider from "Vanishing Point" has got to be on the list. I loved the '70's. This was before political correctness, and before "PG13" ratings. When I say naked-I don't mean tasteful camera angles, back shots, I mean totally nude and barefoot, full-frontal tit and bush shots and I mean long, lingering shots-not like "Playboy" videos where you think the camera is mounted on an Indy car circling the model!! When Kowalski declines both a joint and sex-she just gets back on the bike and conintues riding! So bad.  #7. Lynda Carter "Bobbi Jo and The Outlaw." She actually made this before she got the "Wonder Woman" gig-but it was released after. It's main attribute is she gets naked a lot. Evangelist turned action star Marjoe Gortner was sexy and menacing as her car-thief boyfriend who kills someone in self-defense, causing them to go on the run. Some decent car-chase action in a Mustang and other cars that Gortner steals. Did I mention that Lynda gets naked a lot?  There's going to be some griping about a few omissions-but I don't care. Sally Field in "Smokey and the Bandit?" Sorry. Can't get a woodie for the "Flying Nun" in a Trans-Am. Jordana Brewster spent all her time in the F&F movies mediating the "Bromance" fights between Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. No sex, and not even a gratuitous bikini scene when they went to Brazil ( Gal Gadot provided that ). The smokin hot Eva Mendes spent about 30 seconds in a bikini in F&F 2, but that doesn't count in my book. Any how let the Ginger vs Mary Ann type debates begin....Mastermind              

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