Street Girls

I had never even heard about this movie titled "Street Girls" as I stumbled upon it here in 2024. The movie was released the year I was born, and I guess it wasn't exactly a movie that made a big impact on cinematic history, and thus I never heard about it. Regardless, with this being a movie that I had never seen, of course I opted to sit down and give it a fair chance.

Without knowing what I was in for, and with the movie's title and the year it was made, then I figured chances would be that this would be some type of exploitation movie.

I believed that I was in for a thriller of sorts, as the movie was listed as a drama/thriller, but "Street Girls" is more of a sluggish drama as to an actual thriller. So that was somewhat disappointing, to say the least. And the storyline itself just wasn't particularly captivating, and it was a bit of a struggle to sit through the mundane narrative.

Needless to say that I was not familiar with the actresses or actors in the movie. It should be said that the acting performances were actually fair, despite the fact that the script was rubbish.

Just a heads up, there is a lot of nudity in the movie. But then again, given the movie's title, it sort of comes with the territory, now doesn't it? And the scene in the strip club just dragged on for a prolonged period of time, making it feel like nothing more than a chance for director Michael Miller to show off more nude girls.

As it turned out, then I had definitely not been missing out on a grand gem in cinematic history here. Not that I was expecting that. But this movie was a swing and a miss, and writers Barry Levinson and Michael Miller succeeded at failing to entertain me with their script.

My rating of director Michael Miller's 1975 movie "Street Girls" lands on a two out of ten stars.

I recently watched Street Girls (1975) on Tubi. The storyline follows Angela, who runs away from home only to get mixed up in drugs and desperately seeks money. Before she knows it, she is sold into prostitution, addicted to drugs, and has no way out. Her father is looking for her, but is there any hope of him being able to dig deep enough into this twisted web to find her?

This film is directed by Michael Miller (Silent Rage) and stars Carol Case, Jimmy Smith (The Bill Cosby Show), Paul Pumpian (Chesty Anderson: US Navy), Katherine Wilson (Animal House), and Christine Souder.

This is one of those films that end up being smarter than you anticipate. The cinematography is poor and dated, but the depiction of the lifestyle and those impacted, friends and family, feels authentic. The acting isn't bad, the ladies are gorgeous, and there's plenty of nudity as you'd expect. The dancing is funny at times and also didn't age well. There are some smart lessons learned and worthwhile outcomes that make this better than you'd anticipate.

In conclusion, Street Girls has realistic characters and circumstances that make it a worthwhile cautionary tale. I would score this a 6/10 and recommend it if you're looking for something different.

Future top-notch director Barry Levinson co-wrote this sleazy quickie about a "moralistic" father (who is homophobic yet enjoys strip clubs) searching for his runaway daughter amid a world of prostitution, heroin abuse, and strip club dancing, in all of which she is involved. On the way, he encounters cross-dressers, violent pimps, and his daughter's fellow hookers.

Tons of nudity and seedy characters populate this flick. The acting ranges from decent to hammy; it's hardly surprising that only a couple of the cast members made a single film before or after this one.

Paul Schrader must have seen this before writing the markedly similar HARDCORE (released in 1978), but his version was a definite improvement.

This one was enjoyable for the gratuitous female nudity, little entertainment otherwise.

MPAA: Rated R for abundant nudity, language, drug use, a sex scene, and a couple scenes of violence.

After losing contact with his daughter, a middle-aged man decides to investigate her disappearance, and he eventually finds himself navigating nightclubs in a seedy section of an American city. It's during this time that he comes across a disturbed young man named "Michael Albert" (Michael Weber) who tells him that she used to live with his sister "Sally" (Carol Case) but that she has moved out and is living with a guy named "Mario" (Jay Derringer). He then offers to show him the nightclub where both of the young women work as dancers. Once he gets there, however, although he doesn't find his daughter "Angel" (Christine Souder), he does meet Sally, who tells him things about Mario that make him even more concerned, and that's just the beginning of his troubles. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this was a rather cheap sexploitation film which suffered from a shallow plot and inconsistent acting. And while both Carol Case and Christine Souder performed adequately enough, there just wasn't anything else worth mentioning about this film, and I have rated it accordingly.

The film quality may be lacking from a cinematic perspective but when you measure the film against the seedy backdrop of strip bars, back alleys and low rental apartment buildings where most of the film scenes were taken than you get the feeling that the director was attempting to make the film as realistic as possible. It is possible that maybe the film director and/or producer have experienced some of the seedier part of drugs and poverity in their personal lives or know someone close to them who has lived it on the streets and brought their reality to the screen.

With the abundance of drugs and alcohol that are readily available, and the ease of pimps and their Johns to find women who are willing to satisfy their own drug related needs with sex then the film Street Girls needed to be developed if only to remind vulnerable young women what can happen to them if they fall victime to becoming street girls themselves. The fathers persistence in attempting to find the truth what has happened to his baby girl was more relaistic than hiring a 1970's TV detective such as Columbo, Kojak or Starsky and Hutch.

This may not be a film classic but it certainly is a story that needed to be told and in my humble opinion should be shown to teenagers 14 and older (even though there is some nudity) to dissuade them from participating in recreational drug use.

I give the film a middle of the road 5 out of 10 IMDb rating.