Teenage Cruisers
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Also Known As
- Young Hot and Nasty Teenage Cruisers
- Cruising for Sex (USA)
Main Details
- Released in 1977
- Color
- Running Time: 83 Min.
- Distribution Co: Marden Films (1977) (Canada) (theatrical) (softcore version) (as "Teenage Cruisers") | Raunchy Tonk
Cast and Crew
- Directed by Tom Denucci & Johnny Legend
- Written by Tom Denucci & Johnny Legend
- Starring Serena, Tony Conn, Christine De Shaffer, Rollin' Colin Winsky, Jerry Sokorski, Mabel Joy, Larry Conn, Laszlo Ozlips
- Produced by Pete Cicero, Tom Denucci, Johnny Legend, Steve Margulies, Victor Resnick
- Music by Chuck Higgins, Charlie Feathers, Mac Curtis, Johnny Legend, Billy Zoom
Comments
I wish I could say I loved this movie but it really wasn't much of an entertaining experience for me. Johnny Legend's Teenage Cruisers plays like a mix of American Graffiti meets a Russ Meyer flick...only its nowhere near as good as those films. Add to that a rockabilly score and a late 70s Hollywood backdrop. The movie really has no story, its basically a bunch of wacky characters driving around in cars and in between that theres Johnny Legend playing a radio DJ delivering all kinds of rhyming monologues. Theres some inserted XXX footage of guys (like John Holmes) and girls having sex. If you love 70s porno where everyone has super hairy bush beards, then maybe you'll dig it. Damn, I can't stand hairy 70s porn films. I can't give my reccomendation on this film simply because it didn't deliver for me. Its definitely a hairy sex ridden, down n dirty low budget Grindhouse film, but its also boring.
DVD Review
While I wasn't too into the film itself, the DVD extras were much more interesting to me.
Cruisin The 70's Skin Scene: Johnny Legend walks down Hollywood Boulevard and talks about his career in music and how he later got into independent exploitation and XXX movies. We get to see some footage from several films he worked on like: Don't Just Lay There, The God-daughter, Sexual Sensory Perception and others. He also speaks about all the people who helped him make Teenage Cruisers.
Interviews with: Teenage Cruisers co-star William Margold (who did some hardcore scenes), Artist William Stout who has designed movie posters for such films as Teenage Cruisers, Wizards & Rock N' Roll High School, Musician Billy Zoom (of the legendary Los Angeles punk band X) who contributed music to the Teenage Cruisers soundtrack. Billy Zoom had a case of amnesia in this interview because he couldnt remember ANYTHING Johnny told him from back in the day. It was pretty funny. Johnny was rambling on about their adventures and Billy sat completely still like a mannequin. Johnny's friend Rockin' Ronnie Weiser also makes an appearance and the two pals chat about the old days of sex, drugs & rock n' roll. Also included on the disc is the films original theatrical trailer and some footage of some of the locations where the film was shot.
So I guess overall the DVD as one strange trip down memory lane is worth the buy for hardcore exploitation fans. I really don't think many people who watch Teenage Cruisers will be impressed by it. Maybe if you do some shrooms or get really drunk, that may give it a boost.
--PopeyePete 13:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)