Girl in Gold Boots

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Girl in Gold Boots
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Girl in Gold Boots
Directed by Ted V. Mikels
Written byArt Names
Leighton J. Peatman
John T. Wilson
Produced byTed V. Mikels
StarringJody Daniels
Leslie McRae
Tom Pace
Chris Howard
CinematographyRobert Maxwell
Edited byLeo H. Shreve
Music byNicholas Carras
Chris Howard
Distributed byGeneni Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
94 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Girl in Gold Boots is a 1968 crime/drama film about the seedy underworld of go-go dancing, directed by Ted V. Mikels, who also directed The Astro-Zombies . It was Mikels's first movie for his own company, Gemini. [1]

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Plot

Michele is a young woman working with her abusive father at a diner. She quits her waitressing job when she meets a patron, Buz, who initially came in to rob the place at gunpoint instead invites her to Los Angeles where he promises Michele his sister, the famous Joan Nichols, can land her a job as a dancer at a Hollywood nightclub. The two drive off to L.A. and pick up a traveling musician, Critter. Once in Hollywood, Michele immediately lands a job as a go-go dancer, Critter as a janitor, and Buz as a drug dealer. Michele soon discovers Buz is heavily involved in the underbelly of the club scene and she becomes witness to the club's drug trade and prostitution connections.

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Release

Home media

In 2001, Image Entertainment released the Region 1 DVD of Girl in Gold Boots. [2] This version is now out-of-print. In 2007, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video. [3]

Appearance on MST3K

Girl in Gold Boots was obscure for many years after its release, until it featured as a Season 10 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Apparent skips in the print used in the television program led to some amusing continuity problems, including a scene in a diner in which Buz suddenly appears in his seat next to Michele and Critter as if he teleports in during their conversation. [4] One DVD release (from MMI Image Entertainment, using a print from Geneni Film Distributing Company), shows the scene without the unintentional "teleport" skip but has its own continuity breaks, suggesting two different prints of the original film were used. [5]

Soundtrack

Nearly half of the songs in this music-laden movie, including the title song, were written by singer-songwriter and sound engineer Chris Howard, who appears as himself and is backed by a band called "The Third World" in the credits (not to be confused with the reggae band Third World). One scene features bongo player Preston Epps, who had achieved some fame a decade earlier with his 1959 pop hit, "Bongo Rock". In fact, Epps is listed in the opening credits as "that Bongo Rock man."

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References

  1. Ashmun, Dale (2000). "Ted V Mikels". Psychotronic Video. No. 32. p. 42.
  2. Girl in Gold Boots dvd info, Amazon.com
  3. Girl in Gold Boots DVD info, Oldies.com
  4. "Girl in Gold Boots" (disc 1), The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 4 (2003), Rhino Entertainment, ISBN   1-56605-900-3.
  5. Girl in Gold Boots DVD; Geneni Film Distributing Company, Inc. (film); MMI Image Entertainment, Inc. (DVD); UPC 014381083422.