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The Swinging Cheerleaders is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Jack Hill released in USA on 25 september 1974 with Cheryl Smith
The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
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Add to a movie listThe Swinging Cheerleaders is a 1974 comedy-drama film written and directed by Jack Hill (who was credited for writing the film as Jane Witherspoon). The film was also released under the titles Locker Room Girls and H.O.T.S. II.
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In order to write an article on how cheerleading demeans women, titled The Swinging Cheerleaders, giving the movie its name, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad. While doing so, she uncovers unscrupulous dealings; the coach and dean are in cahoots in rigging football games to favor betting spreads the statistics professor, who is also the bookie, arranges. Later the statistics professor turns against the coach and dean as they turn against their star quarterback who they want to convince to throw the game for a big payoff. But when confronted, the quarterback refuses on principle and is arrested by University Police who plant a joint on him as they carry out the deans ultimatum. The movie endorses defiance of authority, and questions love and virginity.Actors
Cheryl Smith
(Andrea)
Colleen Camp
(Mary Ann)
Rosanne Katon
(Lisa)
George D. Wallace
(Mr. Putnam)
John Quade
(Belski)
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