The Cheerleaders

The Cheerleaders
DVD cover for The Cheerleaders
Directed by	Paul Glickler
Produced by	Robert Boggs Paul Glickler Richard Lerner
Written by	Ace Baandige Paul Glickler Richard Lerner Tad Richards
Starring	Stephanie Fondue Denise Dillaway Jovita Bush Brandy Woods Kimberly Hyde
Music by	David Herman
Cinematography	Richard Lerner
Editing by	Joseph Ancore Paul Glickler Larry Goldman Richard Lerner
Distributed by	Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date(s)	1973
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$153,000

The Cheerleaders is 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 who have sex with the opposing team's players to make them too tired to play football properly, allowing their team to win an unprecedented series of games. The movie broke some taboos such as statutory rape (a cheerleader seduces and has sex with another cheerleader's older brother; a bus driver is seduced to engage in sex with a cheerleader, while he is driving the bus; the coach is seduced to engage in 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 have sex with the members of the opposing football team the night before the big game.

Sequels

The Cheerleaders was followed by the less controversial The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974), directed by Jack Hill, 1976's Revenge of the Cheerleaders, directed by Richard Lerner and 1979's The Great American Girl Robbery aka Cheerleaders Wild Weekend directed by Jeff Werner.

Trivia

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• 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 composed of actual football players (from the San Jose State University freshman football team). 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

• The Cheerleaders at the Internet Movie Database
• The Swinging Cheerleaders at the Internet Movie Database
• Revenge of the Cheerleaders at the Internet Movie Database
• The Great American Girl Robbery at the Internet Movie Database