The Mini-Skirt Mob | |
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Directed by | Maury Dexter |
Written by | James Gordon White |
Produced by | Maury Dexter |
Starring | Diane McBain Jeremy Slate Sherry Jackson Patty McCormack |
Cinematography | Archie R. Dalzell |
Edited by | Sidney Levin |
Music by | Les Baxter Val Johns |
Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1,500,000 (US/ Canada) [1] |
The Mini-Skirt Mob is a 1968 outlaw biker film about an all-female motorcycle gang. The film was directed by Maury Dexter, and stars Diane McBain, Jeremy Slate, Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack, Harry Dean Stanton and Sandra Marshall.
Jilted by her ex-boyfriend Jeff Logan, Shayne (the leader of an all-female motorcycle gang) and her new boyfriend Lon decide to torment Jeff and his new bride, Connie. The harassment backfires when Shayne's sister Edie is accidentally killed by a Molotov cocktail and when Shayne herself ends up hanging by her fingernails off a cliff.
Maury Dexter says the film was the most successful of all the ones he made at AIP. [2]
From Nostalgia Central:
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