The Cheerleaders

Infobox Film
name = The Cheerleaders


caption = DVD cover for 'The Cheerleaders'
director = Paul Glickler
producer = Robert Boggs
Paul Glickler
Richard Lerner
writer = Ace Baandige
Paul Glickler
Richard Lerner
Tad Richards
starring = Stephanie Fondue
Denise Dillaway
Jovita Bush
Brandy Woods
Kimberly Hyde
music = David Herman
cinematography = Richard Lerner
editing = Joseph Ancore
Paul Glickler
Larry Goldman
Richard Lerner
distributor = Anchor Bay Entertainment
released = 1973
runtime = 76 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget = $153,000
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0068364

"The Cheerleaders" was the first of a series of American films about Cheerleaders made between 1973 and 1979, directed by Paul Glickler and starring Stephanie Fondue and Denise Dillaway.

Plot

The plot revolves around a group of high-school cheerleaders are always on the lookout for sex. The movie broke some taboos such as statutory rape (a cheerleader has sex with another cheerleader's older brother. A bus driver is seduced to engage in anal sex with a cheerleader, while he is driving the bus. The coach is seduced to engage in anal sex with the head cheerleader, who later on also seduces and has sex with another cheerleader's father. The lesbian gym teacher spoons one cheerleader in the nude and gives her a handjob from behind) and non statutory female on male rape (the cheerleaders kidnap and then rape one by one the members of the opposing football team the night before the big game, to make them too tired to play football properly. Later on they also do the same to the sole winner of the game).

equels

The Cheerleaders was followed by the less controversial 1974's "The Swinging Cheerleaders", directed by Jack Hill, 1976's "Revenge of the Cheerleaders", directed by Richard Lerner and 1979's Cheerleaders Wild Weekend directed by Jeff Werner.

Trivia

* The Beaver Car Wash was a real car wash with the actual name "Beaver Car Wash"
* Stephanie Fondue was a nude model and auditioned for the director in a hotel. When asked to disrobe, she had no problems being nude. She was considered by the director as the most comfortable of the cheerleaders being naked.
* The original financier of the movie had an objection to the movie. He had a problem with the idea that anyone would lust after cheerleaders in high schools. He felt that since they weren't adults, people would have a problem fantasizing about them.
* The erotic scene with Kimberly Hyde and the gym coach was cut down because the MPAA felt that the coach's hands were suggesting a sex act. It actually wasn't a sex act at all. The director actually had the coach 'hide' Kimberly's private area because Kimberly didn't want to show it on film.
* The football team was comprised of actual football players. When the initiation shower scene was filmed, many of the football players were shy and drank beer to build up their courage to be filmed nude. Many of them did the scene in their underwear covered by towels.
* The school bus driver was the actual driver assigned to drive the school bus for the film. He was not an actor. The director asked him if he wanted to be in the movie and have a love scene while driving the bus. The driver quickly agreed to be in the movie.

External links

*imdb title|id=0068364|title=The Cheerleaders
*imdb title|id=0072236|title=The Swinging Cheerleaders
*imdb title|id=0075137|title=Revenge of the Cheerleaders