Racket Girls

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Charles T This $1.98 production tells the story of one Peaches Page, an aspiring female wrestler whose two ginormous breasts give the best performance in the film. Peaches Page, played by Peaches Page, has her wrestling contract bought by Scalli (Timothy Farrell), a shady promoter who uses his gymnasium for illegal gambling activities. Scalli owes local hood Mr. Big (Phil Bernard) thirty five large, and has Scalli's accountant Monk (Paul Martin) spy on Scalli. Peaches falls for the oily Scalli, ignoring the advice of former gal-du-jour Ruby (Muriel Gardner). Scalli is ordered to testify in front of a Senate committee, and threatens to expose Mr. Big, leading to a resolution- not a shocking resolution, but a resolution. This plot and subplots are padded little stories that serve to fill in the gaps between female wrestling footage; and watching Page's peaches undulate as she jogs, jumps rope, and works out on a rowing machine. The wrestling matches are hilarious- stilted and rehearsed. Scalli and his creepy henchman Joe (Don Ferrara) get most of the screen time, making you wonder who the audience is supposed to cheer for. Real life wrestling champs Clara Mortensen and Rita Martinez pop in for some dialogue with Scalli, and the viewer realizes their best acting was done in the ring. The film is a technical nightmare. Actor Farrell is given a tiny desk to sit behind and run all his money-making scams. The background noises heard during the wrestling matches sound like they were recorded on an elementary school playground. No screenwriter is credited, it is assumed this was tossed together by the film's director/editor. The Senate investigative hearing, broadcast live on the radio, consists of one guy sitting in front of an American flag. The women working out at the gym look directly into the camera. If your fetish consists of black and white footage of doughy middle-aged women halfheartedly rolling around on a mat and pulling each other's hair, then here you go. Otherwise, this is an awful B-flick, easily forgotten. Also known under a ton of other titles- "The Blonde Pick-Up," "Pin Down Girls," and "Pin Down Girl," possibly more. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/18/23 Full Review Audience Member As two half-clothed women wrestle silently: "One thing that really comes through is the filmmakers' love of the subject." Riff rating: 🤼‍♀️🤼‍♀️🤼‍♀️.5 Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review joe m Whoa! Unbelievably bad film of the alleged female wrestling circuit as a front for organized crime. Saw it as a MST3K film which barely redeemed this descent in to inanity!!! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Decades before Title IX or ass-kicking female fighters like Gina Carano debuted in "Haywire," there was women's wrestling in "Racket Girls." The wrestling turns out to be a front for racketeering. The end...I mean, that's the main plot; I assume some of you do give a damn about what happens to the main characters at the end. Have I mentioned that I saw this on "Mystery Science Theater 3000"? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Now this is one sleazy piece of celluloid. It's one of those movies that tries hard to be sexy, but just fails on every possible level. Racket Girls (AKA Pin-Down Girl, AKA Blonde Pickup) is more or less an exploitation movie, with the exploitative part being filled by very large breasts and women's wrestling. Most of these gals couldn't even get a job doing ads for J.C. Penney if they wanted to. A good half an hour to an hour of the movie is devoted to the lame wrestling and you're struggling like hell to get yourself through it and move on to something else. The plot is hackneyed and tries to be a gangster movie at times, but overall, it's just a sleazefest, and not a particularly good one. Thankfully the crew at Mystery Science Theater 3000 did a nice little riff on it, and that's the only way I'd recommend this boring piece of crap. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow and boring. MST3K could barely make this one watchable. The characters are horrible and the story is uninteresting. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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