Dirty O'Neil

DIRTY O'NEIL is a rare little film from AIP, made as a softcore sex picture but with the kind of added grit that you'd expect from an early 1970s production. The protagonist is a cop who spends the running time bedding a string of impossibly beautiful young woman, all of whom seem especially eager to fall into bed with him. The wall-to-wall nudity sustains the running time for the first half hour, but then the film takes a darker turn. There are scenes of abuse and some extra character depth as various folk struggle with almost existential dilemmas, and all of this leads to a violent climax. The acting is nothing to write home about, but the film is better plotted than I'd expected, and the darker tone suits it well.

While flicking through the Amazon Prime video recommendations, Dirty O'Neil appeared as "something you might like". Never having heard of if and with a poster that looked like a 70's exploitation flick, I gave it a go. Because I currently have a thing for 70's movies due to era being somewhat less cluttered than the current decade.

Dirty O'Neil is obviously a play on Dirty Harry but that is where the similarities end. Because what makes O'Neil dirty is has habit of picking up and sleeping with random women. And this is the main draw of the movie. 1970's women. Women without tattoos, piercings, lip filler, butt lifts, a healthy slim weight and natural hair colour. Never to be repeated. While it has hints of a sexploitation movie, its not quite at the level required to fit into that category. As this has an actual plot. O'Neil works in a small hick town that a bunch of hoodlums invade and its down to him to deal with them. While the first hour is fairly light in tone, the final act is like something out of a Death Wish movie. Also be on the lookout for Captain Mauser from police academy. This must have been the job he had before he moved up the ranks.

There were a lot of great exploitation movies made in the '70s. This was not one of them.

1970s drive in curiosity, better production values for this type of film. Small town populated by what seems like models at every corner wearing no bras and willing to immediately sleep with the new office in town. Some criminal action later moves the movie in a different direction. Still a low brow movie given the very prominent role that women's breasts are given here.

The most heinous crime is a guy or group of them raping a weak female unable to defend herself .. for that reason alone i found this film to be sick and disgusting ... makes you wonder what kind of sickp produced and directed it , howard freen is the world's biggest bunghole