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.

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.

7O's sexploitation film with a lot of T, this shallow story structured drama, if an unconvincing one, has one freaky fact about it. It was co written by Barry Levinson of all people. They're some really strung out and freaky cats in this 69 minute time waster (better off watching 9 songs) of a father who we see, likes to see other underage girls dance around topless, desperately track down his daughter. From strip club to the strippers pads, we are taken on a quest, we really don't care much for. One loopy character (the one pride asset to this film apart from all the T) who rants on about absolute crap, assists the father in his quest, but is none too much help. Even the pimps in the film aren't scary and it's finale is wrapped up too easily, if pathetic, but really that's cliché of the whole film, despite the sexy and believable performance of the strung daughter who's asked by clients to perform some pretty weird requests. Street Girls suffers, because there's just not enough meat to the story or has far few plot points. It's if the film was written in slap dash form. The film is shallow as a low tide, where luckily as a replacement we have a lot of nudity, and T, and that loon, but that does not make for a good quality film, which something like this is fu..in' far from it.

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.